The Power of The (un)seen
The Ellipsis as A Political Strategy of Representation
Keywords:
Latin America, women’s representation, ellipsis, installationAbstract
Based on the analysis of the installations Puente Kyha by Claudia Cassarino, Desapego by Celeste Massin and Blisters del cuerpo by Patricia Hakim, this work seeks to explore the power of ellipsis as a response to the representation of women in western civilization art. The generalized meaning of ellipsis refers to the intentional omission of certain elements of discourse to provoke effects in the viewer. However, in a context in which the nude has been the most commonly used genre to represent or portray women, the decision to depict a female body but not in an explicit way works as a political strategy of representation, like a response to the «hypervisibility of women as objects of representation and their persistent invisibility as creative subjects» (Mayayo, 2003, p. 21).Downloads
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