Abstract

FRANCICA, Cynthia. Animality, Affect and Trans Imaginaries in the Visual Art of Nicola Costantino. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2020, vol.28, n.2, e72439.  Epub May 20, 2020. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2020v28n272439.

In today’s context of radical questioning of the category of the ‘human’, a sector of contemporary visual arts investigates the ways in which gendered subjects take shape not only in relation to human cultural environments but also to material, natural and inanimate geographies. Focusing on the case of Argentine artist Nicola Costantino (Rosario, 1964), I propose that through the recovery of sensual, tactile and affectively charged bodily surfaces, her artwork Peletería humana (1996-2003) negotiates hegemonic articulations of gender and sexuality and communal histories of violence while revisiting national symbolic imaginaries in order to explore new potential subjectivities and bodily configurations regarding the feminine, the queer and the living.

Keywords : Animality; Affect; Trans; Argentine art; Nicola Constantino.

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