{"id":319,"date":"2026-08-28T18:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2026-08-28T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:00:21","slug":"vivemos-todos-sob-o-mesmo-ceu-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/?page_id=319","title":{"rendered":"Vivemos todos sob o mesmo c\u00e9u (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numa procura de (re)constru\u00e7\u00e3o da narrativa colonial, proponho uma dissemina\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9tica do arquivo colonial pela constru\u00e7\u00e3o de um discurso que extrapole a hist\u00f3ria dominadora da ideologia colonialista, procurando dar uma forma de poder, pela minha interpreta\u00e7\u00e3o art\u00edstica e simb\u00f3lica, a quem foi colonizado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sob esta ideia, este trabalho partiu da cole\u00e7\u00e3o fotogr\u00e1fica da Miss\u00e3o Antropol\u00f3gica e Etnol\u00f3gica da Guin\u00e9 \u2013 1946\/47 (Universidade de Lisboa\/Museu Nacional de Hist\u00f3ria Natural e da Ci\u00eancia \u2013 IICT), concebida com o intuito de servir os prop\u00f3sitos de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o coloniais do minist\u00e9rio das Col\u00f3nias \u2013 Junta das Miss\u00f5es Geogr\u00e1ficas e Investiga\u00e7\u00f5es Coloniais, e liderada por Am\u00edlcar de Magalh\u00e3es Mateus, assistente da Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias do Porto e zo\u00f3logo dedicado \u00e0 antropologia f\u00edsica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nesta cole\u00e7\u00e3o est\u00e3o incorporadas v\u00e1rias categorias, sendo alvo de interpreta\u00e7\u00e3o e recodifica\u00e7\u00e3o visual as fotografias da categoria Tipo, ou seja, retratos de habitantes de v\u00e1rias comunidades da Guin\u00e9-Bissau. Estes retratos eram captados com o objetivo \u00fanico de recolher documenta\u00e7\u00e3o objetiva sobre a caracteriza\u00e7\u00e3o f\u00edsica das pessoas, complementada pela media\u00e7\u00e3o e descri\u00e7\u00e3o minuciosa das partes do corpo de cada pessoa, tendo em vista us\u00e1-las como for\u00e7a de trabalho em diferentes formas de produ\u00e7\u00e3o e explora\u00e7\u00e3o da terra guineense, para proveito \u00fanico da economia portuguesa. As pessoas eram fotografadas de forma obrigat\u00f3ria e sem consentimento. Esta documenta\u00e7\u00e3o revela-se como uma prova da explora\u00e7\u00e3o colonial e do uso for\u00e7ado e objetificado<\/em> da popula\u00e7\u00e3o guineense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O guineense engenheiro agr\u00f3nomo Jos\u00e9 Filipe, afirma que \u00e9 desej\u00e1vel a \u201creconcilia\u00e7\u00e3o pela verdade na escuta da sua multiplicidade de fontes\u201d (Kowalski, 2024). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ap\u00f3s o meu trabalho de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o que se desenvolveu sob esta premissa, resultando na tese de doutoramento \u201cApropria\u00e7\u00e3o participativa de mem\u00f3rias fotogr\u00e1ficas coloniais: o arquivo e a constru\u00e7\u00e3o de narrativas na Guin\u00e9-Bissau\u201d (2024), e como poss\u00edvel abordagem para este processo de reconcilia\u00e7\u00e3o, pretendo, atrav\u00e9s do objeto fotogr\u00e1fico, de forma aleg\u00f3rica e sob o meu olhar criativo, dar uma nova vida \u00e0s pessoas fotografadas, trazendo cor a estas fotografias a preto e branco, atrav\u00e9s da sua manipula\u00e7\u00e3o e integra\u00e7\u00e3o de novos elementos visuais. Procuro, assim, criar uma narrativa de vis\u00e3o e interpreta\u00e7\u00e3o pessoal, subjetiva, que permita transparecer personalidades imaginada e livres das pessoas ent\u00e3o fotografadas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

E ainda numa homenagem \u00e0 imagem anal\u00f3gica, e com refer\u00eancia a t\u00e9cnicas fotogr\u00e1ficas do s\u00e9c. XX e \u00e0s viagens de explora\u00e7\u00e3o e de expedi\u00e7\u00f5es cient\u00edficas datadas do final do s\u00e9culo XIX e s\u00e9culo XX, ilustra\u00e7\u00f5es e imagens do arquivo fotogr\u00e1fico s\u00e3o conjugadas, e diferentes formas de impress\u00e3o artesanal e digital s\u00e3o executadas, para a cria\u00e7\u00e3o de uma terceira imagem, que passar\u00e1 a representar um imagin\u00e1rio que procura dignificar a pessoa retratada. Cada imagem coloca num mesmo n\u00edvel objeto\/sujeito de estudo e explorador, antrop\u00f3logo e cientista, fotografado e o seu retrato fotogr\u00e1fico, procurando, assim, representar o dissolver de rela\u00e7\u00f5es de domina\u00e7\u00e3o. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As ilustra\u00e7\u00f5es que aqui aparecem prov\u00eam de estudos cient\u00edficos de hist\u00f3ria natural, efetuados nos mais variados cantos do mundo, publicados em livros como o \u2018Dictionnaire Universel D\u2019histoire Naturelle<\/em>, Birds of America\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Nouveau Larousse illustr\u00e9, <\/em>Poissons, \u00e9crevisses et crabes\u2026 que l\u2019on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les c\u00f4tes des Terres Australes\u2019<\/em>, \u2018The Great Barrier Reef of Australia\u2019, \u2018<\/em>Kunstformen der Natur\u2018, \u201a<\/em>Le Larousse pour tous\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Faune de la S\u00e9n\u00e9gambie\u2019, \u2018Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rollers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbets\u2019<\/em>, \u2018Art forms in Nature\/ Kunst-Formen der Natur\u2019<\/em> e, por fim, no livro \u2018Travels in Africa During the Years 1875 \u2013 1886\u2019<\/em>, do explorador russo Wilhelm Junker, numa altura em que os imp\u00e9rios europeus come\u00e7aram a controlar uma grande parte do territ\u00f3rio africano, em busca de territ\u00f3rio e dos seus recursos naturais, num sistema colonial de domina\u00e7\u00e3o pela opress\u00e3o e viol\u00eancia, com repercuss\u00f5es negativas, ao n\u00edvel social, cultural, ecol\u00f3gico e econ\u00f3mico, que ainda hoje se fazem sentir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Este trabalho beneficiou do uso da infraestrutura <\/strong>PRISC (Portuguese Research Infrastructure of Scientific Collections).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a quest to (re)construct the colonial narrative, I propose an ethical dissemination of the colonial archive through the construction of a discourse that goes beyond the domineering history of colonialist ideology, seeking to give a form of power \u2013 through my artistic and symbolic interpretation \u2013 to those who were colonised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this in mind, this work drew on the photographic collection of the Anthropological and Ethnological Mission to Guinea \u2013 1946\/47 (University of Lisbon\/National Museum of Natural History and Science \u2013 IICT), conceived to serve the colonial research purposes of the Ministry of the Colonies \u2013 the Board of Geographical Missions and Colonial Research, and led by Am\u00edlcar de Magalh\u00e3es Mateus, a lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences of Porto and a zoologist specialising in physical anthropology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This collection encompasses several categories, with the photographs in the \u2018Type\u2019 category \u2013 that is, portraits of residents from various communities in Guinea-Bissau \u2013 being the focus of interpretation and visual recodification. These portraits were taken with the sole aim of gathering objective documentation on the physical characteristics of the people, supplemented by a detailed description of each person\u2019s body parts, with a view to using them as a labour force in various forms of production and exploitation of Guinean land, for the sole benefit of the Portuguese economy. People were photographed against their will and without their consent. This documentation stands as evidence of colonial exploitation and the forced and objectified use of the Guinean population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guinean agricultural engineer Jos\u00e9 Filipe asserts that \u201creconciliation through truth, by listening to its multitude of sources\u201d is desirable (Kowalski, 2024). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following my research, which was conducted under this premise and resulted in the doctoral thesis \u201cParticipatory appropriation of colonial photographic memories: the archive and the construction of narratives in Guinea-Bissau\u2019 (2024), and as a possible approach to this process of reconciliation, I aim, through the photographic image\u2014allegorically and from my creative perspective\u2014to breathe new life into the people depicted, bringing colour to these black-and-white photographs by manipulating them and integrating new visual elements. I thus seek to create a narrative based on a personal, subjective vision and interpretation, one that allows the imagined and unfettered personalities of the people photographed at the time to shine through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, as a tribute to analogue imagery, and drawing on 20th-century photographic techniques and the exploratory journeys and scientific expeditions of the late 19th and 20th centuries, illustrations and images from the photographic archive are combined, and various forms of artisanal and digital printing are employed to create a third image, which comes to represent an imaginary world that seeks to honour the person portrayed. Each image places the object\/subject of study and the explorer, anthropologist and scientist, the person photographed and their photographic portrait, on an equal footing, thereby seeking to represent the dissolution of relations of domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The illustrations featured here are taken from scientific studies of natural history, carried out in the most diverse corners of the world, and published in books such as the \u2018Dictionnaire Universel d\u2019histoire naturelle\u2019, \u2018Birds of America\u2019, \u2018Nouveau Larousse illustr\u00e9, Poissons, \u00e9crevisses et crabes\u2026 que l\u2019on trouve autour des Isles Moluques, et sur les c\u00f4tes des Terres Australes\u2019, \u2018The Great Barrier Reef of Australia\u2019, \u2018Kunstformen der Natur\u2019, \u2018Le Larousse pour tous\u2019, \u2018Faune de la S\u00e9n\u00e9gambie\u2019, \u2018Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rollers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbets\u2019, \u2018Art forms in Nature\/Kunst-Formen der Natur\u2019 and, finally, in the book \u2018 Travels in Africa During the Years 1875\u20131886\u2019, by the Russian explorer Wilhelm Junker, at a time when the European empires began to control a large part of the African continent, in search of territory and its natural resources, through a colonial system of domination characterised by oppression and violence, with negative social, cultural, ecological and economic repercussions that are still felt today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work benefited from the use of the PRISC (Portuguese Research Infrastructure of Scientific Collections) infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PT Numa procura de (re)constru\u00e7\u00e3o da narrativa colonial, proponho uma dissemina\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9tica do arquivo colonial pela constru\u00e7\u00e3o de um discurso que extrapole a hist\u00f3ria dominadora da ideologia colonialista, procurando dar uma forma de poder, pela minha interpreta\u00e7\u00e3o art\u00edstica e simb\u00f3lica, a quem foi colonizado. Sob esta ideia, este trabalho partiu da cole\u00e7\u00e3o fotogr\u00e1fica da Miss\u00e3o […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariakowalski.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}