Propuesta escultórica en representación del cuerpo femenino centrada en las tensiones visuales entre erotismo y censura en el arte contemporáneo

Abstract

Censorship in art has historically been used as a control mechanism that has conditioned the sensual representation of the female body. Although in the contemporary context a discourse of freedom of expression is promoted, there persist forms of censorship (religious, political, media and social) that regulate the visible and demand the constant justification of eroticism in art. In this context, a visual critique is constructed, from art, to the contemporary discourses of censorship around the female body and sexuality, through a sculptural proposal that works with an ambiguous aesthetic of the erotic. In the central part is a sculpture, whose visual language refers to the prehistoric Venus, through a voluminous body and an abstract head. Around the sculpture, in a glass casing, there are open books related to freedom of expression and the various mechanisms of censorship. This set establishes a thought between the sculptural body and the systems that have historically regulated its representation, inviting the viewer to meditate about the body as a territory of symbolic dispute.