Art History PhD candidate Lynne Lee recently published her article "Desmantelando imagens de arquivo: as colagens de Rosana Paulino como veículo de paradoxo" ("Dismantling archival images: Rosana Paulino’s collages as a vehicle of paradox") in the peer-reviewed journal Idéias published by the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). The journal publishes in three languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese).
Abstract: In Brazilian Geometry Arrives in Tropical Paradise (2018-2021), Rosana Paulino creates a striking palimpsest of Brazilian history by borrowing images from colonial and imperial archives. This series aligns with critical archival projects that confront the visual legacies of slavery and colonization. Through an analysis of her collages, I argue that, by establishing a paradoxical relationship between appropriated iconog-raphies, Paulino opens new possibilities of reading archival images and prompts a mode of critical perception that looks beyond ideological mechanisms.
Lynne is currently writing a dissertation, tentatively titled "Black Art in White Narratives: Early Afro-Brazilian Art History at the Crossroads of Science and Aesthetic" on the early reception of Black art in Brazil.