Shadows and Lights: Technical Reproduction, the Ephemeral Traces of Disappearance and the "Pure T" in the Work of Regina Silveira

The text analyses the shadow and light poetics in the works of the artist Regina Silveira. It shows its connections with the old tradition of skiagraphia as well as with the history of the reflections and theories about the shadow. The article presents how Silveira's shadow's writing, that in the beginning pointed towards something absent and verdrangt (repressed), takes the shape of a light writing, "pure trace", without the anguish of the absence.