Cuerpo de mujer

The body is not just a biological fact but a cultural construction, social and historical situation in which art has a role. But the eye of art has been traditionally male. The question being asked this text is what happens when women stop being the proverbial object of the gaze of others and she dares to look her own body? Well, when you imagine a woman and a keyhole is usually the woman you are supposed to be spying. What happens when a woman lies ahead and behind the keyhole, when a spectacle becomes a spectator, when you build your own pictures on your body? These are precisely the places that have occupied the artists here convened. After centuries of canonical representations of the Colombian woman's body shaped by the ideal of the Creole Baroque Virgin Mary, the female body begins to be a question, a very complex question, when an artist such as Débora Arango fiercely destroys these orthodox images. The Colombian woman's body since then cease to be meek??, asexual, white, aristocratic, copy and docile. New perspectives as to ethnicity, violence, eroticism, politics, identity permeate this ideal start to build the ambiguous bodies now emerging in contemporary works like those of Maripaz Jaramillo, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Liliana Angulo, Libya Posada, María Teresa Hincapié, Adriana Duque, Flor Maria Bouhot, Doris Salcedo and Beatriz González. This is not a definitive or complete record of the representations of female bodies in Colombia, but it is in the beginnings of an invisible story is just beginning to be spun. One that is written not only from the traditional perspective of art history but also from the unpublished history of Colombian bodies.