Exposition

The Tropical Trauma Misery Tour: Dissecting the ambivalent dynamic of the networked image through an artisticpractice : Reframing Jair Bolsonaro’s media presence (2025)

Rafael Franceschinelli Roncato
Ega Huurdeman
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About this exposition

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society Welcome to the TROPICAL TRAUMA MISERY TOUR. I invite you to take this tour through aroofless theater called media, the stage representing the farce and media opportunism ofthe Brazilian president and far-right populist, Jair Messias Bolsonaro—The Myth.In 2018, Bolsonaro was stabbed during a presidential rally campaign. Against a backdrop ofpolarization, micro-narratives, and misinformation,The Mythstarred in an online politicalcampaign where he had complete control over his narrative and self-presentation. This tourinvestigates how the ambiguity of the stabbing event exposes the network propaganda in theBrazilian political game.Through a speculative documentary photography practice, this piece overcomes the politicalillusions and dissemination of nonprogressive values of digital populists. The fictionalizationof the real is a form of resistance towards such ideological shams and manipulations. Itdevolves into a meta-play, a farce within a farce.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsspeculative documentary photography, digital populism, post-truth, networked image, network propaganda, Master Photography & Society
date12/10/2022
published21/05/2025
last modified21/05/2025
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationRoyal Academy of Art, The Hague
copyrightRafael Franceschinelli Roncato
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1759950/1759949
published inRoyal Academy of Art, The Hague
portal issue0. Publications 2022
external linkwww.rafaelroncato.com


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