Translucent strategies and counter-images: breaking up with hegemonic representation.

Authors

  • Haizea Barcenilla Garcia a:1:{s:5:"es_ES";s:27:"Universidad del País Vasco";} Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2020.v41i.10196

Keywords:

Visibility, Homosexuality, AIDS, Feminism, Contemporary Art, Gender

Abstract

This paper focuses on two strategies used by artists in vulnerable collective to subvert the hegemonic regime of images. Counter-images are representations that go beyond the acceptable in the logic of normativity of the canon, and take a position against it. Translucent strategies, on the other hand, play with visibility and occultation, and create ambiguous images that can infiltrate the regime of representation, and subvert it from the inside. The combination of both can bring a stronger potentiality for disruption. To introduce these strategies we use works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Mapplethorpe and collective Señora Polaroiska.

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Published

2020-11-03

How to Cite

Barcenilla Garcia, H. (2020). Translucent strategies and counter-images: breaking up with hegemonic representation. Boletín De Arte, (41), 23–32. https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2020.v41i.10196

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