Experimentaciones estéticas de la fealdad en propuesta escultórica eco activista, como crítica a los comportamientos sociales inapropiados

Abstract

Environmental pollution is a problem that has been growing over the years. Cuenca, an Ecuadorian city classified as an environmental reference, also suffers from it. In this context, I set out to generate an eco-activist, dystopian and satirical sculptural proposal, from a critique of inappropriate social behaviors, through aesthetic experiments with the ugly and the grotesque, conceiving art as a powerful tool for environmental awareness and education: a formidable resource with which to propose possible suitable alternatives to avoid dystopian futures. Therefore, through the aesthetic representation of the ugly and the grotesque, I sought to disturb and challenge the viewer, inviting them to question the social behaviors that feed various forms of pollution. I addressed, from a critical and eco-activist perspective, the ecological crisis and the environmental problems that the city faces. I focused on its urban and industrial contexts, and used allegory and satire to make visible the inappropriate human behaviors that contribute to the deterioration of the environment. The dystopian setting of the work shows a future where the human being has evolved, mutated or has been replaced, through humanoid figures with animal characters, illustrative of a potential consequence of our systematic self-destructive behavior.