Fragmented bodies: The ceramic poetry in Resilience by Ana Paula Santana

Abstract

This article studies the work Resiliencia (2017) by the Jalisco artist Ana Paula Santana from, on the one hand, the phenomenological considerations of the body as thickness to apprehend the world, and on the other, the artistic strategies carried out by the artist through the kintsugi technique and that make up both a display of the grieving bodies, as well as a complaint about sexual violence and female criminalization in Mexico. In this sense, we will develop a hermeneutical approach to Resilience through her writings, her field work, the production process and the material result of her, also helped by an interview with the artist herself. Thus, from different perspectives, we will delve into the associative capacities and the metaphorical power of the work that, as we will see, allows us to transfer the political discussion to the artistic processes and vice versa in a game of ambivalence and changes of meaning.