Cuerpo y arte corporal en la posmodernidad: las mujeres visibles

Abstract

The new network of social, cultural, political and economic relationships posed by the posmodern context introduces, after the fall of the universal genesis of the single , indivisible subject of Modernity (white, male and heterosexual), the existence of the fragmentación and multiplicity of the individual, as well as highly diverse cultural impulses situated around the borders of culture (ethnic groups, feminism, the handicapped). As contrasted whith the alienation of the modern individual, posmodern times offer the issues of dispersión, multiplicity of feelings and the dissolution of diacronic notions of time and space that are included in the virtual world. The boundaries between the different artistic genres are broken down, and a whole series of manifestations emerge around the body; these reflect the paradoxes of the posmodern society and its need to resignify binary social constructions. In the bodily art of women, the body acquires the value of active presence, of the possibility of unifying the sensitive and the intelligible, almost as a place of polítical resístanse, an area for reflection and resignifying of the signs that exclude women and which, through bodily art, gain access to a visibility that is not reified by the androcentric gaze, a meeting place for things public and things private, in a body capable of uniting the personal and the political.