Lygia Clark in Navilouca

Abstract

Designed in a single edition, Navilouca is a concentration of underground artists at the height of the military dictatorship. Organized by Torquato Neto and Waly Salomão in 1972, it differs from traditional literary magazines, due to its extensive and intersemiotic character, with space for sensorial arts. In this scenario, the relevance of the body is cultivated in a field that offers more and more space, favoring freedom, experimentation and the visibility of subversive proposals. We will comment on the interweaving between body and work through the text “Da supressão do objeto (anotações)”, written by Lygia Clark for Navilouca, where it is possible to perceive the figuration of a body in creative movement. This body is ambiguous, and it contains, not always in a harmonious way, a full, luminous side, and a fragmented, dark side. In this moving body, some vanishing points are revealed and the modes of resistance against the brutalization of the dictatorship are deciphered. Here, the objective will be to present this work by Lygia Clark and explore the artist's writing, her notes on the relationship between body and object, in addition to resuming the considerations about the loss of authorship.