Creative powers of silence: image and evocation

Abstract

This article proposes an alternate approach to the existing discussions and tensions between silence and the spoken word, as well as the ways in which these two poles have been located in what is antagonistic, a product of the modern logics that divide them; thus, the text identifies the places occupied by silence and the creative conditions that display them in family photo albums, and the stories that emerge from them. Thereby, the research from which this article is derived addresses these antagonisms as a possibility to claim silence as a creative power, in contrast to the privilege that the word has enjoyed.