About the Journal

Cartema is a biannual publication affiliated with the Joint Graduate Program in Visual Arts at UFPB/UFPE.

Cartema publishes articles, visual essays, and curated artistic exhibitions in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. It maintains a continuous submission system for unpublished works, which are evaluated through a double-blind review process, in addition to specific calls for thematic dossiers.

The journal is open access for both authors and readers, with a National and International Editorial Board.

Cartema does not charge any fees of any kind.

Current Issue

Vol. 15 No. 15 (2025): Revista Cartema 15 - ISSN: 2763-8693


The editorial team thanks CAPES and UFPE, as this edition was carried out with the support of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – Brazil (CAPES) – Funding Code 001.

The cover image is by visual artist Clara Simas. Untitled, 35mm Photograph, 2018.

Published: 2025-04-16

Dossiê: Imagem em Movimento - Editorial

Dossier: Moving Image – Articles

  • To write, to film, to correspond letters of Chantal Akerman, film diary and other image addressings

    Yurie Yaginuma, Aline Maria Dias
    1-15
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.264583

  • Figure the sacred and the profane in Jean-Claude Brisseau

    Brenda Valois
    1-16
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.264574

  • The poetics of the gaze in Bill Viola's video art – I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986)

    Lucas Murari
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.267238

  • Systemic forms in the work of Hollis Frampton

    Lucas Baptista
    1-21
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.267239

  • The spectator between the looking glass moving-image installations of Douglas Gordon

    Cássia Hosni
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.261922

Dossier: Moving Image – Commented Art Exhibitions

Dossiê: Imagem em Movimento - Traduções

  • Glancing Outward notes on the New Historicist Film

    Lucca Nicoleli Adrião
    1-10
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.264577

  • Imagens Malvadas

    Hito Steyerl; André Antônio Barbosa, Hermano Callou
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.267099

Continuous Flow – Articles

  • Between art criticism and journalism chronologies, conceptual fissures and negotiations

    Walter Arcela
    1-11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.260224

  • About Bajado, an artist from Olinda

    Wilson Chiarelli, Alberto Pessoa
    1-21
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.266357

  • What an artistic residence at Hospital unveils about art, clinic, and subjectivity

    Ana Elizabete Lisboa Nogueira Cavalcanti, Ana Lúcia Francisco, Patricia Cecília Burrowes
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.263494

Continuous Flow – Commented Art Exhibitions

  • Driving Line – Louise Gusmão

    Raquel Nascimento de Brito
    1-6
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.264160

  • Stories of the Earth the geography of colors by Marlene Almeida

    Mosir de Melo Barbosa Neto
    1-6
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51359/2763-8693.2025.265606
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