Mourão, Catarina Caldas de Figueiredo MendesSousa, André Picardo Caetano de2022-04-112022-04-112022-02-01http://hdl.handle.net/10451/52270This research work begins in its practical part with the development of an audiovisual object – ERDNA, subsequently complemented with its analysis and literature review over the archive as a main subject. As a whole, I propose the unfolding of various possible notions of the archive in relation to its spatiotemporal characteristics and, in concrete, to understand in what way the archive can be a dominant corpus to think both individual and collective identities. Working with my own family archive as a primary tool of research, I aim to analyse and expand the borders of its representations, in order to fabricate new narratives, also indispensable for an individual or collective subjectivity. It is within this research field that I aim, subsequently, to reflect about the role of fiction in documentary and autobiography, from the retrospective and speculative revision of my childhood, portraying and conducting an auto analysis process about loss, grief and traumaporAudiovisualFamíliaArquivosMemóriaAutobiografiaFicçãoDocumentárioArquivo - Na arte contemporâneamaster thesis202965686