FRAGMENTOS ROUBADOS: O RETRATO DA INCOMPLETUDE

Abstract

The portrait, as well as the self-portrait, in hispictorial tradition built a type of own speech. Thecontemporary technologies offered other ways ofrepresentation that break with the tradition, at the sametime in which they talk to her. How we may read acontemporary portrait? It is the question that looks forthese paper from the work of art “50 Hours: Self-portraitStolen†of the photographer Rocheli Costi. The inter –relations between others texts are, in the aesthetic texts, themark of the contemporaneousness producing a format ofhypertext, which the reading depends on the connectionsthat the reader is going to draw.KeysWords ⎯ Self-portrait, photography, reading,Rocheli Costi.