{"id":4644,"date":"2025-11-27T16:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maissilva.com\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:36:24","slug":"back-and-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maissilva.com\/en\/2025\/11\/27\/back-and-forth\/","title":{"rendered":"Back and Forth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back and Forth<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/strong>\u201cQuando fecho os olhos, sinto o mesmo amor\/\u00f3dio entre n\u00f3s que existia no in\u00edcio. Queria ser vista, mas agora, como adulta, o que precisava era partir. Tudo come\u00e7a no \u00fatero. No meu primeiro casulo, algo deve ter acontecido.\u201d (Mariana Rocha)

Back and Forth<\/em>, de Mariana Rocha, retrata o limiar entre o amor e o \u00f3dio. La\u00e7os familiares, novas descobertas, lutos, pequenos fardos e o deixar ir ocupam o territ\u00f3rio deste pequeno livro a n\u00e3o subestimar. Um desenho infantil de giz de uma casa \u2014 o lar arquet\u00edpico \u2014 renderizado a past\u00e9is, desfaz a ilus\u00e3o da mulher independente que come\u00e7ava a construir nestas p\u00e1ginas. Desejos de inf\u00e2ncia e ideais familiares romantizados s\u00e3o dif\u00edceis de abandonar. O que fazemos quando a realidade nos confronta? Reflexos e cortinados, sombra e tom sentam-se desconfortavelmente ao lado de retratos ferozes e carros amolgados numa disposi\u00e7\u00e3o desorientadora de \u201ctornar-se\u201d, muito distante da tradicional narrativa de amadurecimento. Este n\u00e3o \u00e9 um livro sobre um progresso linear espec\u00edfico; se formos honestos, cuja vida \u00e9? \u00c9 um soco no \u00edcone da fam\u00edlia nuclear. A casa est\u00e1 tombada, as paredes s\u00e3o ocas e as linhas nem sequer se alinham. \u00c9 prec\u00e1ria, imposs\u00edvel de habitar, mas \u00e9 fascinante. Como Tolst\u00f3i perspicazmente escreveu: \u201cTodas as fam\u00edlias felizes se parecem; cada fam\u00edlia infeliz \u00e9 infeliz \u00e0 sua maneira.\u201d (Anna Karenina<\/em>, 1877)

Sharon Young, 2022

Fotografias:<\/strong> Mariana Rocha
Edi\u00e7\u00e3o e Sequencia\u00e7\u00e3o:<\/strong> Mariana Rocha e Sharon Young
Design:<\/strong> Dayana Lucas
Pr\u00e9-impress\u00e3o:<\/strong> Pedro Guimar\u00e3es
Produ\u00e7\u00e3o:<\/strong> Tiago Casanova, Pedro Guimar\u00e3es e Giacomo Alberico
Impress\u00e3o:<\/strong> Gr\u00e1fica Maiadouro

2022, XYZ Books, Primeira edi\u00e7\u00e3o
60 p\u00e1ginas, 15 \u00d7 22,5 cm, Impress\u00e3o Offset
ISBN: 978-989-53182-3-0

Parceiros institucionais: Rep\u00fablica Portuguesa, DGArtes (Dire\u00e7\u00e3o-Geral das Artes)
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“When I close my eyes, I feel the same love\/hate between us that was there at the beginning. I wanted to be seen, but now as an adult what I needed was to leave. It all starts in the womb. In my first cocoon, something must have happened.” (Mariana Rocha)
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Mariana Rocha’s Back and Forth portrays the threshold between love and hate. Family ties, new discoveries, griefs, little burdens and letting go occupy the territory of this not to be underestimated little book. A child’s chalk drawing of a house – the archetypal home – rendered in pastels shatter the illusion of an independent woman that was beginning to build in these pages. Childhood longings and familial romanticised ideals are hard to shake off. What do we do when reality hits? Glimmers and drapery, shadow and tone sit awkwardly next to fierce self portraits and crumpled cars in a disorienting array of ‘becoming’ that is far removed from the traditional coming of age story. This is not a book about a particular linear progress, if we are honest about it whose life ever is? This is a punch in the face to the nuclear family icon. The house is falling on its side, the walls are hollow and the lines don’t even match up. It’s ramshackle, it’s impossible to live with, but it’s interesting. As Tolstoy insightfully put it “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” (Anna Karenina, 1877)
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Sharon Young, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photographs:<\/strong> Mariana Rocha
Editing and Sequencing:<\/strong> Mariana Rocha and Sharon Young
Design:<\/strong> Dayana Lucas
Prepress:<\/strong> Pedro Guimar\u00e3es
Production:<\/strong> Tiago Casanova, Pedro Guimar\u00e3es and Giacomo Alberico
Printing:<\/strong> Gr\u00e1fica Maiadouro<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022, XYZ Books, First edition

60 pages, 15 x 22,5 cm, Offset Printing
ISBN: 978-989-53182-3-0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Institutional Partners: Rep\u00fablica Portuguesa, DGArtes (Dire\u00e7\u00e3o-Geral das Artes)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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