Visual Bodies

Abstract

Throughout Western history, the body has been treated and conceived through different nuances, both ideological and religious, with political, moral and scientific arguments. Art, especially, has explored its representation from prehistory to the present day evidencing a need in the creation of images that mean it. This approach has been made by the media, through advertising for example, as well as the cinema. In the different treatments, elements such as the conception of beauty, power, identity, cult, life and death, etc. have been used. The present proposal consists of a dissertation about the body and the treatment of the representative images that make up the contemporary visual and ideological culture, having as a constructive axis the film “Las hijas del fuego” (2018), by Albertina Carri, which introduces us to a universe of diverse and imperfect bodies that do not reflect the historical-sexual hegemony of the corporeal, thus allowing a debate about the current treatment of the body, the norm, the destruction and selfconstruction of the body and its representation.