Artes Visuales-Pregrado

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Cruz y Trono: Una crítica visual a los sistemas de poder perpetuados por la dogmática
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-16) Fernández Martínez, Mario Paúl; Moreno Ríos, Ximena Janneth
This project, presented under the modality of an artistic product, has as its central axis a visual critique of institutionalized systems of power, specifically within the Catholic Church. Through the use of oil painting grounded in the aesthetic resources of the Baroque period—re-signifying its visuality—the work proposes a critical inquiry into the contradictions between religious doctrine and institutional practices. Within the theoretical framework, the proposal is constructed from a critical perspective, grounded in the contributions of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, who analyze the dynamics of power perpetuated through religious discourse. This institutional framework originates in Europe and, through colonial processes, expands into Latin America, a phenomenon addressed by Aníbal Quijano through the theory of the coloniality of power. From a technical standpoint, the work consists of an oil painting imbued with symbolism and interpreted sacred iconography, seeking to generate a critical experience of an allegorical nature. Through the use of these resources, the project aims to establish a critical dialogue between the viewer and the conceptual intentionality of the work, demystifying—through a renewed aesthetic—the violence concealed beneath the mantle of religious morality. Ultimately, the intention of this thesis is for the artwork to function as a device of collective memory and visual resistance in the face of a reality obscured by the governance of societies through faith and its hegemonic and disciplinary structures, questioning their historical legitimacy from a critical and contemporary perspective.
Fotografía artística a partir del estudio de casos de adolescentes en procesos de recuperación por abuso de sustancias
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-17) Guaman Pulla, Juan Miguel; Pacheco Ayora, Sonia Katterine
This thesis addresses alcohol and other drug use among adolescents within the sociocultural context of the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, from an artistic and critical perspective. Based on research and creation, the project proposes a photographic series developed from documentary photography with an artistic approach, whose objective is to highlight experiences linked to violence, dependence, and sexual abuse associated with alcohol consumption at an early age. The methodology employed is based on a process of co-creation and dialogue with three specific cases, constructed from interviews and previous encounters that allowed for the establishment of an ethical and participatory relationship between the author and the participants. This approach enabled the subjects involved to actively participate in defining the symbolic and expressive content of the images, avoiding an external or extractive representation of the testimony. The resulting photographic work is characterized by a restrained, fragmented, and tense aesthetic that seeks to visually translate the emotional, physical, and subjective effects of problematic consumption and associated traumatic experiences. Far from an explicit or sensationalist representation, the images propose a critical reflection on the cultural normalization of alcohol and its consequences in the construction of adolescent identity. As a contribution, this work consolidates documentary photography with an artistic approach as a valid tool for research-creation within the field of visual arts, capable of generating critical reflection and situated knowledge on complex social issues. The photographic work does not stop at certifying subjective traumatic experiences, but rather expresses an ethical and sensitive judgment of an alarming social problem such as alcohol consumption in adolescence, contributing to revealing realities that are frequent, normalized, and silenced by cultural stigmas in the Cuenca context.
Propuesta audiovisual con narrativa onírica basada en síntomas psicosomáticos de un trastorno mental
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-16) Carchi Panza, Michelle Cristina; Rodriguez Rodriguez, Tannia Edith
This research-creation project proposes an audiovisual approach to represent and understand mental disorders associated with experiences of childhood violence, considering the bodily, oneiric, and symbolic dimensions of trauma. The study is grounded in autoethnography as a methodological framework, positioning the author’s subjective experience as a legitimate and situated source of knowledge for both theoretical reflection and artistic production. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue between clinical knowledge, aesthetics, and narrative practices, a video art piece is developed that translates psychosomatic manifestations of trauma -particularly recurrent nightmares- into a symbolic and surreal visual language. The creative process articulates the representation of a real body in movement with a non-linear, dreamlike narrative constructed through symbolic elements such as nocturnal landscapes, celestial bodies, tunnels, and natural environments, enabling a metaphorical reading of pain and traumatic memory. From a creative and cultural perspective, the project contributes to autoethnographic artistic practices by integrating personal experience, clinical reflection, and visual experimentation. From a cognitive perspective, the research strengthens technical knowledge in digital animation and audiovisual editing while proposing an ethical and aesthetic reflection on the importance of acknowledging, processing, and resignifying pain as a pathway toward subjective transformation.
Iter Peregrini: Creación de una experiencia estética visual, usando como medio la escultura conceptual, en torno a los desafíos que enfrentan universitarios migrantes
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-12) Flores Vozmediano, Jordy Alexander; Pañora Chacha, Juan Carlos
This work encompasses artistic research based on the research-creation methodology, with the aim of producing a conceptual and experimental sculptural work that highlights the experiences of foreign university students, based on an autoethnographic and bibliographic study. The work is presented as a Greek column composed, from bottom to top, of ten small MDF panels, which satirically depict the everyday situations faced by foreign students, designed in a cartoon style. Ultimately, the project seeks to create a visually aesthetic and symbolic work, accompanied by a critical exegesis that will analyze the result of the finished work in consideration of the interdisciplinary approach attributed to its conceptualization from its ideothematic and morphological-expressive approach. It even engages the audience in introspection that provokes a connection and reflection on the difficulties that foreigners experience during the process of migrating to a new and unfamiliar environment.
Cómo escuchar a las esferas. Dispositivo sonoro multisensorial para una escucha crítica y una topografía del sonido
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-16) Washco Tapia, Ariel Adrián; Washco Castro, Adrián Efrén
The soundscape of the city of Cuenca reflects the direction of its inhabitants and their problems. The white noise that makes up the city goes unnoticed, but like a vengeful ghost, it wreaks psychological and physical havoc within us. This condition forces us to reflect on how the homogenization imposed by social and governmental norms suppresses the richness of local sounds. The work seeks to generate a multisensory experience that allows the viewer to interact with the acoustic identity of the environment and the importance of sound in cultural construction. Based on different philosophical approaches, it analyzes how the suppression of the negative in favor of constant positivity limits reflection, creativity, and freedom. In this sense, the work is presented as a critical and conceptual exegesis on chaos, noise, and sound identity in contemporary society.
Frases que pegan: intervenciones urbanas sobre la represión emocional masculina en Cuenca
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-10) Narea Sinchi, Jonnathan Fernando; Rodas López, Fabiola Virginia
This work addresses, from an artistic and critical perspective, the phenomenon of emotional repression in men, a consequence of traditional stereotypes of masculinity rooted in Cuenca society. The proposal takes shape in a series of visual interventions in public spaces using the paste up technique and related techniques, using acrylic illustrations accompanied by phrases that seek to challenge the passerby, inviting reflection on gender mandates that inhibit expression. male emotional. Through urban art, the project proposes a critical perspective on male emotionality, highlighting its historical silencing and suggesting alternative forms of representation and symbolic questioning. Rather than seeking a definitive solution, the work functions as a trigger for aesthetic discomfort and everyday reflection, opening space for urgent debates around gender, affectivity, and visual culture in the contemporary urban context.
Propuesta artística contemporánea sobre el lenguaje simbólico floral como medio de visibilización de la violencia doméstica hacia la mujer
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-16) Bonete Arias, Martha Carolina; Machado Gutiérrez, María José
Domestic violence against women constitutes one of the most persistent structural problems in Ecuador. Gender roles, rigidly constructed and historically entrenched, have contributed to the perpetuation of stigma surrounding the reporting and public visibility of this form of violence. Within this framework, the present project seeks to foreground domestic violence against women as a negative phenomenon of our historical moment, through a contemporary artistic proposal grounded in experimentation and in the creative production of symbolic and communicative codes articulated through visual representations of plant life. Accordingly, the project presents a series of nine floral still lifes featuring encoded messages, conceived as an artistic work that reinterprets the language of flowers within the context of intimate partner violence. From both functional and symbolic perspectives, floriography—historically employed as a form of covert communication in contexts of emotional repression—is reclaimed in order to resignify its traditionally romantic or decorative associations. Flowers thus emerge as vehicles of denunciation, capable of exposing dynamics of control, submission, and silence that have been naturalized within the affective and social imaginary, particularly in relation to women.
La escultura e instalación como recurso inmersivo y apreciativo para realzar la belleza del cuerpo humano
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-13) Sánchez Aguirre, Lilibeth Andrea; Pacheco Ayora, Sonia Katterine
This research–creation project explores the beauty of the human body from an autoethnographic perspective, as it emerges from an intimate experience marked by conflict with body image and the difficulty of inhabiting my own body under self-imposed judgments and beauty standards, shaped by teachings and reflections accumulated throughout life. The proposal seeks to construct a visual aesthetic experience that, through a reflection on human bodies, reveals their potential for artistic enjoyment of beauty through sculpture and installation. Grounded in the work of authors such as Plato, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Berger, Wolf, Eco, Rojas, and Cheng, the research assumes that beauty is not a universal norm, but a changing emotional experience. In this context, sculpture and work with clay become a symbolic medium that embraces fragility and memory, where matter and gesture merge with the organic. The installation invites the viewer to participate in a sensory experience that combines reflection, sound, and contemplation, promoting an intimate reconciliation with one’s own body and its changing nature. Beauty is highlighted through diversity, where difference, aging, and intervention coexist on an equal level. The work does not seek to impose discourses, but rather to open an affective space where diversity is revealed as a legitimate form of beauty.
Fanzines como bitácora expandida: Narrativas gráficas desde la experimentación artística
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-13) Muñoz Aguilar, Amelia Michelle; Machado Gutierrez, María José
This degree project addresses research-creation in visual arts and proposes the construction of a contemporary artistic work from an experimental and interdisciplinary process that articulates ceramics, literature and graphic practices of self-publishing. The research is developed through a process log that works simultaneously as a methodological tool, sensitive archive and narrative device of artistic making. The proposal materializes in a trilogy of fanzines, conceived as autonomous and complementary supports, where the fanzine is enhanced not only as a means of dissemination, but as an artistic language in itself. Through self-publishing, manual graphics and material experimentation, these fanzines record reflections, texts, images and fragments of the ceramic process, establishing a symbolic dialogue between word, image and matter. From a symbolic approach, the project reflects on the value of the creative process, experimentation as a method of knowledge and artistic practice as a space for crossing between disciplines. Ceramics, understood both from its material and conceptual dimensions, is linked to writing and drawing to build visual narratives that show manual, fragmentary and procedural making. This research-creation proposes the fanzine as an expanded support capable of containing and activating contemporary artistic processes in the field of applied and visual arts, questioning traditional notions of final work and privileging process, experimentation and selfpublishing as strategies of production of meaning.
True Animals: Representaciones irónicas del maltrato animal desde la ilustración crítica contemporánea
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-12) Garay Chuchuca, Javier Andrés; Rodas López, Fabiola Virginia
This research-creation project, developed under the Investigation for Creation (IPC) framework, addresses the normalization of animal abuse in contemporary society through critical illustration. The primary objective is to produce a series of four illustrations titled True Animals: Ironic representations of animal mistreatment in contemporary critical illustration, utilizing analog ink drawing and hatching techniques, while experimentally incorporating hematic pigment to enhance the work's visceral impact. Methodologically, the study employs the trial with variations method and a narrative strategy based on the ironic reversal of humananimal roles to challenge the instrumentalization of domestic species. The theoretical foundation reviews concepts of domestication, moral disengagement, and multi-species ethics. Consequently, the work seeks to overcome viewer desensitization and provoke deep introspection, reclaiming drawing as a powerful and relevant tool for social dissent and resistance.
Lengua kichwa e indumentaria en el conflicto generacional en la nación Panzaleo: Una propuesta visual sobre la tensión cultural contemporánea
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-12) Chaluisa Sigcha, Lidia Maritza; Ordóñez Carpio, Santiago
In this research project we address the contemporary cultural transformations that the Panzaleo nation is going through, focusing on the intergenerational tensions linked to the use of the kichwa language and traditional clothing. Thus, using a contemporary photographic visual approach and ethnographic tools, we seek to represent the processes of identity change from a perspective that articulates the symbolic and the everyday. We aim to understand how variations in clothing affect the construction and perception of identity within the community, as well as to analyze the role played by the kichwa language in the configuration and transmission of cultural practices and their intergenerational passage. This study privileges the critical observation of the symbolic disputes that emerge between generations, proposing an aesthetic and reflective look on the ways in which cultural elements are negotiated, reconfigured and re-signified or replaced in the current context. The visual proposal is thus constituted as a tool of registration and representation that makes visible these cultural tensions that define the contemporary Panzaleo identity construction.
Propuesta visual ilustrativa sobre la violencia de género en el contexto familiar desde una visión autoetnográfica
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-12) Chunchi Lojano, Evelyn Tatiana; Machado Gutiérrez, María José
In Ecuador, gender-based violence is rampant. At least 6 out of 10 women have experienced it in some form throughout their lives, and this not only directly affects the victim, but also their family environment. In this context, we set out to create an aesthetic experience that would raise awareness based on a visual autoethnographic testimony in digital illustration about gender-based violence in the family environment, in order to raise public awareness by projecting the intimate onto the collective. A diptych with complementary illustrations was provided. On the left, fear and vulnerability are explored through a closed composition. On the right, calm and reconstruction are depicted through an open layout, balance, and calm gestures. Both develop symbolic elements and a pastel color palette as a way of exploring the unconscious and narrating the issue in a non-literal way. As an aesthetic experience, the aim is to create a sense of empathy and reflection, inviting recognition of violence not only as a social fact, but also as an intimate experience that permeates the body and memory.
Reflexión crítico-artística sobre la instrumentalización y estigmatización de los animales en prácticas ancestrales de la comunidad de Babarcote-Biblián
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-12) Orozco Chabla, Kevin Alexander; Amoroso Peralta, Silvana Mireya
The use of animals as resources for healing or protection remains prevalent in various cultural practices around the world. In the Ecuadorian context, these practices reveal internal tensions within the communities that sustain them, particularly between the preservation of ancestral knowledge and the ethical, social, and psychological implications derived from its exercise, which are transmitted intergenerationally. Within this framework, the research-creation generates a contemporary visual critical reflection on the instrumentalization and stigmatization of animals in ancestral practices of the Babarcote community (Biblián), through a surrealist work. The work is based on the analysis of theoretical references, the compilation of ethnographic testimonies, and their symbolic reinterpretation. The result is a surrealist triptych entitled Kan wañuy kanki in which the dog, the guinea pig, and the bull symbolize, respectively, home, health, and tradition. Through a dreamlike logic, the deformation of bodies and the construction of symbolic scenarios visually translate the conflict between pain and memory, revealing bodies that are wounded so that others may heal. Through an aesthetic experience marked by discomfort and doubt, the work invites reflection on the blurred line between ritual, belief, and inherited violence as a form of knowledge.
Instalación artística sobre los efectos de la hiper conectividad en las nuevas generaciones
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-12) Quichimbo Carlosama, Christian Esteban; Novillo Mora, Angel Gustavo
This thesis proposes a visual and symbolic representation of the body-technology symbiosis and emotional saturation in a biomechanical aesthetic installation. From an interdisciplinary perspective that articulates contemporary art, cultural studies, and social psychology, and employing a research-creation (RCC) approach with a non-autoethnographic focus, the work addresses the excessive use of digital technologies as a central phenomenon in current socialization dynamics, characterized by constant connection and, simultaneously, by a growing emotional disengagement. The project not only seeks to visually represent a contemporary phenomenon but also to foster an aesthetic experience that invites the viewer to question their own relationship with technology, emotionality, and current ways of inhabiting the digital world.
Arte roto: Creación de un cómic a partir de la ilustración digital para la visibilización hacia la desmotivación por el Síndrome de Burnout
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-11) Pacurucu Pinos, Kevin Andres; Guzman Galarza, Manuel Giovanny
This research-creation project explores the use of comics as a narrative and expressive medium to address the loss of creativity associated with burnout syndrome. Through the development of a hybrid artwork that combines physical display and digital extension, an artistic proposal is constructed that integrates conceptual content, formal decisions, and cultural mediation strategies, generating an expanded narrative experience for the viewer. The artwork represents creative exhaustion and the fragmentation of artistic identity through resources inherent to sequential art, such as the use of black and white, a slow visual rhythm, and a fragmented narrative structure. Likewise, the implementation of a hybrid exhibition model based on the use of QR codes and interactive devices is analyzed as part of the mediation system between the artwork and the audience.
Reinterpretación visual de la iconografía religiosa, desde una mirada femenina, crítica y subversiva tomando como analogía la acción erótica/caníbal
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-12) Parrales Pesantes, Julia Andrea; Moreno Ríos, Ximena Janneth
This present graduation project proposes artistic and theoretical research centered on the representation of the female body within the Catholic imaginary, specifically examining the biblical figures of the Virgin Mary and Rahab from a critical, erotic, and contemporary perspective. Drawing from historical, iconographic, and iconological analysis, this research investigates how the Eurocentric religious tradition has constructed discourses that exalt virginity, obedience, suffering, and purity, while simultaneously condemning, marginalizing, or silencing free female sexuality. The project is grounded in the diptych Eucharistic Banquet, in which both figures are reinterpreted through an iconography that emphasizes the erotic, the cannibalistic, and the ritualistic. Here, cannibalism is employed as a visual metaphor for sacrifice, power, and the appropriation of the female body, establishing a parallel between the Eucharist and the systemic violence historically exerted upon women. In this context, the sacred is presented as a space of tension, where desire, faith, and transgression coexist in a conflictive manner. The choice of Mary and Rahab responds to their significance within the biblical narrative and the unequal visibility both have had in the history of religious art. While the Virgin Mary has been represented and glorified as a model of purity, sacrifice, and submission, Rahab has been relegated to a secondary figure, associated with sin, prostitution, and moral punishment. This juxtaposition allows us to evidence the patriarchal hierarchies that have defined which bodies are worthy of veneration and which must be excluded. Drawing from a methodology that integrates theoretical research, visual analysis, and artistic practice, the project engages with several references from contemporary art and psychoanalysis that address the body, violence, the erotic, the cannibalistic, and the sacred. In this manner, the work positions itself as a form of resistance that questions hegemonic discourses and reinterprets the female body as a political, desiring, and autonomous territory. The project thus affirms art as a legitimate space for critical thought and the rewriting of historical and religious narratives from a feminine and decolonial perspective.
Visibilización de problemáticas del campo ecuatoriano mediante ilustraciones sobre textiles basadas en las memorias de un relato familiar
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-05) Chimbo Cumbe, Evelyn Karelis; Moya Méndez, Misael
This graduation project proposes the creation of a series of illustrations printed on silk scarves, inspired by experiences from the Ecuadorian countryside recovered from the memory of a family story. Through a visual, affective and symbolic approach, the aim is to represent stories linked to rural life from an intimate, ethnographic and critical perspective. The proposal stems from the recognition that art can be means to rescue individual and collective memories, especially those that have been marginalized by dominant narratives. In this case, family memory becomes a fertile ground for exploring the marks of the past and their resonances in the present, making visible the conditions of inequality, structural violence and resilience that structural violence and resilience that permeate the Ecuadorian peasant world. This interdisciplinary work crosses that languages of contemporary art, social denunciation and the practice of memory, in order to make structural inequalities visible, activate a sensitive reflection and give rise to a visual narrative that intertwines the personal with the collective.Thus, this thesis work proposes a visual narrative that links the testimonial with the symbolic, the affective with the critical, inviting the viewer to reflect from a sensitive perspective on the invisible realities of the Ecuadorian countryside.
Creación escultórica de un vehículo simbólico, desde la ciencia ficción, como proyección visual futurista de la ciudad de Cuenca
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-11) Chacón Campos, Pablo Misael; Pañora Chacha, Juan Carlos
As a result of globalization, Ecuador has been invaded by dozens of entertainment trends, one of which is science fiction. In this context and making use of this genre, a line of research-creation is being carried out in the development of a Basis for the attempted construction of spaceships and technologically advanced vehicles, specifically for the representation of a futuristic imaginary of the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, and the consequent ramification into four Bypass that consecutively combine different aesthetics, moving from more complex and detailed models to the implementation of a minimalist morphology of Andino cars, culminating in the fourth Bypass, which is a metal sculptural production that serves as a model and whose purpose is to be a vision of the possible final product or conclusive Opus.
Sentimientos congelados: análisis del proceso creativo como medio de expresión y aceptación del duelo y la pérdida de un ser querido
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-09) Ortiz Carrasco, María Macarena; Pañora Chacha, Juan Carlos
This project addresses the experience of grief and loss from an autoethnographic perspective, framed within the modality of Research Through Creation (RTC). The creative process is used as a sensitive way to express, process, and reframe the emotions linked to the death of loved ones. Through the periodic collection of flower petals from my grandmothers' graves, a sculptural and installation piece was developed that integrates my body and organic matter as a symbolic and poetic presence of absence. The work seeks to reframe the symbolic use of flowers in funeral contexts, establishing an emotional link between bodily memory, grief, and contemporary artistic practices. From a poetic and psychomagical dimension, my creative process becomes a space for catharsis, acceptance, and reflection, both for me and for the viewer. The research proposes art as a device capable of transforming pain into an aesthetic experience, promoting a better empathetic understanding of grief as a non-linear, intimate, and permanent process.
Propuesta visual contemporánea basada en la cosmovisión de culturas prehispánicas para una reivindicación decolonial del vínculo humano-fauna
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Artes, 2026-03-10) Chauca Guevara, Jessica Alexandra; Ordóñez Carpio, Santiago
In recent decades, the bond between humans and nature has been fractured by an anthropocentric worldview that places humanity at the center of all existence, relegating all other beings to a subordinate position. In response, the creation of imaginaries in which the human and the non-human coexist in spiritual equality is proposed as a means of resistance. From this perspective, the proposal seeks to reclaim the worldview present in the mythology of Latin America’s pre-Hispanic cultures, where the animal is conceived as a spiritual being and a mediator between planes. The project draws on the fictional universe Solar, developed in collaboration with artist Mara Andrade since 2021, and proposes, thru speculative storytelling, alternate histories set in a post-environmental-collapse future. In this context, the bonds between humans and wildlife are reinterpreted from a decolonial perspective that challenges the ontological hierarchies inherited from modernity. The work, represents the rebirth of humanity, which, after its fall, finds a new possibility of existence in symbiosis with nature. Thus, fiction stands as a poetic and symbolic language that articulates past and future, myth and memory, inviting reflection on the lost balance and our relationship with the non-human.

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