The metaphor of the thread in artistic practice. Allegories of a trip
Abstract
Considering that the allegorical tradition has been transferred to the collective popular imaginary for centuries thanks to the incessant transmission of certain cosmogonies, myths and legends by means of all kinds of means such as oral, print or audiovisual, the present text aims to give how contemporary art continues to generate semiosis processes based on this type of allegorical evocations, focusing only on the interpretative enclave of the thread and its adjacent ones - such as the weaving action. We will help ourselves with the studies on ancient mythology and indigenous culture of authors such as Danesi (2004), Pintado (2012) Aguilera (2014) and Fernández (2012), to relate them to artistic practice, especially around the work of two contemporary authors who have made the thread their plastic material: in this case, artists of the likes of Chinese-American Beili Liu and Franco-American Louise Joséphine Bourgeois.
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