Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022
Master Photography & Society
This thesis is the result of research on two statues commissioned by collective bodies, of writers who, combined, wrote under more than 100 pseudonyms, after they died. Fernando Pessoa and Edward Elias, sculpted by António Lagoa Henriques and Theo van der Nahmer respectively.
These statues don’t serve the authors, so why were they built? How do they frame collective memory? How do we interact with them?
By connecting the story of these statues with theory on cultural identity, aura and counter-strategies for mobilisation this thesis explores possible interventions to negotiate these statues.
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