Os poemobjectos de Roberta Camila Salgado: criação e materialidade

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the poetic production of Roberta Camila Salgado. Between 1964-1965 she created the poemobjetos [poemobjects], that would become part of Tropicália, an environmental installation created by Hélio Oiticica in 1967 and launched in the seminal exhibition “Nova Objetividade Brasileira”. Camila Salgado’s poetic writing uses materials such as roofing ceramics, brick blocks, Styrofoam and wooden boards. It appropriates the unusual aspect of those industrialized materials and makes them intrinsic to the poem. In this sense, the poemobjeto presents itself directly connected to the environment. Poetry becomes a sort of materiality that does not intend to control the attention of the observer/reader, who experiences it as an unexpected discovery. In short, this article intends to examine how Roberta Camila Salgado’s poemobjetos and their materiality situate themselves within the Brazilian poetic milieu.