NIVALSON MIRANDA

UNIVERSE OF DISCOVERIES AND ERASURES

Abstract

Understanding the personal private archive as a place of memory enables us to draw Nivalson Fernandes de Miranda's life trajectory in relation to the functions he performed in the environment in which he was inserted. Therefore, this text deals with the archival collection of the researcher and artist Nivalson Miranda, with the purpose of presenting the life trajectory of this artist, through his personal private archive. For this, we adopted as a methodology the qualitative research of documentary type associated with oral history. The research done in the artist's collection and in his writings allows us to affirm that Nivalson's collection is precious to society, because the documents comprise important historical facts and details of the state's historical heritage and present, through research , drafts and drawings, a historical, social and cultural period. We realize the importance of the archive and the diversity it presents - textual, iconographic, cartographic and three-dimensional documents, in which its artistic works are inserted. We conclude that Nivalson's collection enables us to appreciate his life story and explore the artistic legacy he has left us.