Videoinstallation and afro-atlantic aesthetics experiences in the work of Tiago Sant’ana and Julien Creuzet

Abstract

In this article, I take some critical notes on two artistic works and their expography proposals as an aesthetic experience that places the videoinstallation and the videographic language in relation to other images, thus expanding the function of video. I take as examples the room of the artist Tiago Sant’ana in the exhibition “Iniciadas – Ancestralidades Contemporâneas” and the installation of the artist Julien Creuzet, in the itinerary of the “35th São Paulo Biennial – Coreografias do Impossível”. I consider that, in both proposals, the Atlantic Sea is a fundamental part of the visual narrative, where perhaps a common poetic language of the black diaspora emerges: the ocean as an ambiguous place of trauma, but also of spiritualities and exchanges. Therefore, the aesthetic experience mediated by both works leads to the reception of landscapes erected in/by the experience of identities forged in the black diaspora.