A importância do outro na construção do eu : estruturação de um atlas

This dissertation thesis consists of an investigation where two components join, one of a practical nature, the other theoretical. The practical component results in two artistic proposals, a series of drawing instalations and a series of cyanotypes, which motivate the development of the theoretical component. The theme which intersects the whole dissertation is set in the construction of personal identity. Since personal identity is based on experiences shared in a certain environment, what I propose to explore is the importance of the other in the constitution of personal identity. This problem is thought through the study of two authors, Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens, and three works: Atlas Mnemosyne by Aby Warburg, Gabinete > Panero by Pedro Saraiva and Pierrot Le Fou by Jean-Luc Godard. The practical component builds an expanded self-portrait based on visual memories from a familiar and day-to-day environment which, at first tends to belong to a single one, ends up revealing itself as the result of multiple others.