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Hit and sunk. Eulàlia Vallodosera and Cristina Lucas

To slash Velazquez’s Mirror Venus, “spit” on Hegel, decapitate Michelangelo’s Moses or “desecrate” Emperor Claudius’s statue are gestures (some real, others symbolic) synchronized in a single iconoclastic movement against the patriarchal patrimony. The suffragette (Mary Richardson) who attacked the ideal Beauty, the writer (Carla Lozi) who spat against the Hegelian understanding of history as a dialectic struggle between masters and slaves (in which women, lacking conscience, does not reach even to be a slave), the destruction […]

eulalia valldosera - dependencia mutua - le bastart

Tocado y hundido. Eulàlia Vallodosera y Cristina Lucas

Acuchillar a la Venus del Espejo de Velázquez, “escupir” sobre Hegel, decapitar al Moisés de Miguel Ángel o “mancillar” la estatua del emperador Claudio son gestos (unos reales, otros simbólicos) sincronizados en un mismo movimiento iconoclasta contra el patrimonio patriarcal. La sufragista (Mary Richardson) que arremetió contra la Belleza autocomplacida, la escritora (Carla Lozi) que escupió contra la comprensión hegeliana de la Historia como lucha dialéctica entre amos y esclavos (en la que la mujer, […]

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El territorio y sus estratos. Recorrer el cuerpo “campo a través”

La ciencia cartográfica fue desarrollándose a remolque de las grandes conquistas. Así, Felipe II, abrumado por la vastedad de sus dominios, encargó un atlas al mejor geógrafo de la época a fin de que su ávida mirada pudiera abarcarlo todo, soñando con ser un Salvator Mundi con el orbe crucífero en una mano y bendiciendo con la otra. El título de este primer atlas moderno, Teatro del Mundo (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum), no esconde su voluntad […]

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The territory and its layers: gender, nature, body

At the time of the great conquests, modern cartographic science was developed. Felipe II, overwhelmed by the vastness of his territories, commissioned to the best geographer of the time to map the world. So, he could take complete control at a glance, and even maybe dreaming of being a Salvator Mundi with the orb in one hand and blessing with the other. The title of this first modern atlas, Theater of the World (Theatrum Orbis […]

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Semiotics of the veil

Since the discovery of the technique of wet-drapey in Classical Greece to the arty side of the advertising photo, from Phidias to Erwin Blumenfeld, to veil carnal pleasures has been the best way to enhance them. Now that everything is so overexposed the veil is a precious asset, a relic of  more surprising times, such as those that encouraged the encrypted porn, with gray weaving as curtains in front of coupled bodies. These filters, with […]