A Mulher em Pânico - Faces do surrealismo no Brasil. As forças disruptivas do feminino nas Fotomontagens de Jorge de Lima

Abstract

In between the decades of 1930s and 1940s, Jorge de Lima became interested in the practice of photomontage when he entered in contact with the surrealist technique through the book “La Femme 100 Têtes” by Max Ernst, which was offered to him by his artistic partner Murilo Mendes. In a research carried out in the archives of the Museum of Brazilian Literature (AMLB) at the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation (FCRB), we found 55 clippings from magazines never used by the poet, in which there is a prevalence of images of the female figure. In this article, we specifically address the importance of women and the “disruptive” forces of feminine in the surrealist topic. To this end, we carried out some comparative analysis between photomontages and poems signed by Jorge de Lima and Murilo Mendes. We will see how the praxis of Lima drinks from the sources of the French avant-garde, echoing the investigations undertaken by André Breton and Georges Bataille.