E pluribus unum: Ricardo Aleixo, poeta interartes

Abstract

Our objective is to develop a study about the interrelationship between literature and visual arts, a process that poets and artists have practised since the nineteenth century and today it has been established as an interdisciplinary discourse. For this, we conducted a case study of the work of the poet Ricardo Aleixo, whose poetry contains interfaces with the visuality which are reflected in his broad literary discourse. Therefore, not only did we analyze his work as an author who has an autobiographical testimony based on his cultural references and his African descent, but we also approached the visual aspects of his poetry, which sees the book as an object of art, concrete poetry as visual practice, covering the use of virtuality as a poetic tool, the role of photography in his writing process, the absorption of the literary text reflected in his performances, his multimedia poetic practice and his performance as a plastic artist in whose work the text is also used as a visual appeal. Our intention is to demonstrate that his poietic benefits from all the discursive arsenal which the poet uses in the construction of his work, a process that, in its sensitive fruition, does not see boundaries between literary and visual techniques, but uses them as a dialogue, providing an area of interart practice.