Humorous strategy in feminist visual agency

Abstract

This article aims to explore the spaces of dissent generated in the field of images thanks to humor and appropriationism, two fundamental tools for the feminist movement in recent decades. In order to understand their transgressive capacity in the visual field, this text will relate with the works of several artists who experiment with the forms and meanings imposed by hegemonic discourses. We will see how playing with the inappropriate and imagining the (im)possible in the artistic field does not imply losing sight of direct experience and collective struggles. The political potential for transformation of the creative resources analyzed in this work disarticulates the regime of visuality that power stipulates with its distribution of light and shadow. But above all, it offers us the possibility of mobilizing the imagination, challenging the gaze and shaking bodies.