Abordaje visual contemporáneo de conductas excesivamente autocríticas, desde una actualización del tratamiento estético de lo cómico

Abstract

Currently, criticism influences how people seek to meet social expectations to obtain approval, leading to negative self-criticism that motivates behaviors aimed at achieving social validation, showing an empathetic facet and adjusting to the norms expected by others. This process involves canceling less accepted aspects similar to cruelty or antipathy that we prefer to hide, and the prevailing need for conformity and approval can lead us to lose authenticity and underestimate genuine aspects of personality. Faced with this situation, We set out to address this excessively self-critical human behavior, through an update of the aesthetic approach to the comic and the grotesque, with a surrealist visual work. Human duality was expressed through three paintings and a mirror. The abstract female figure (main) symbolizes the total acceptance of imperfections, openly displaying her "pure" and "corrupt" facets, while her counterparts hide their "cruel and unfriendly" side behind her, showing only their pertinent and empathetic side. This highlights the idea of accepting our duality with its imperfections and that this intrinsically dark reality is undeniable and impossible to disguise or hide. This representation symbolizes the need to recognize that, when contemplating ourselves in the mirror, we face both our bright and dark facets and only those who have accepted both facets in their being will shine, highlighting the importance of integration and acceptance of complexities. that make up human beings.