Tag: Otherness
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Article :Prothèses en tension : sémiotique du corps altéré chez Sophie de Oliveira Barata et Viktoria Modesta (Sémiolitté-2025)
This article explores the prosthesis not as a mere medical or functional device, but as an aesthetic, political, and semiotic sign of the altered body. Through the practices of Sophie de Oliveira Barata and Viktoria Modesta, it analyzes how the prosthesis becomes a vector of subjectivation, a tool for identity affirmation, and a disruption of ableist…
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The Body without Organs of Cindy Sherman: A Reinterpretation of Corporeality in Contemporary Art (December 2024)
Cindy Sherman deconstructs representations of the body through unsettling photographic stagings. In my article “The Body without Organs of Cindy Sherman,” published in Políticas y narrativas del cuerpo 2 (Politics and Narratives of the Body 2), I explore how her work challenges identity, materiality, and bodily vulnerability in contemporary art.
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Bodily Science Fiction in the Hyperrealistic Work of Patricia Piccinini (February 2024)
Patricia Piccinini’s hyperrealistic sculptures blur the boundaries between the living and the artificial. In my article “Bodily Science Fiction in the Hyperrealistic Work of Patricia Piccinini,” published in Imaginaires du corps, sensualités imaginées (Imaginaries of the Body, Imagined Sensualities), I explore how her work redefines sensuality and the perception of the body in the biotechnological…
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Frankenstein or the Modern Photographer: Reflections on Creation and Image (November 2023)
What if the myth of Frankenstein resonated within contemporary photography? In my article “Frankenstein or the Modern Photographer,” published in Frankenstein and His Creature, from Yesterday to Today, I explore the parallels between the figure of the scientist and that of the photographer. Both shape a new reality, navigating between image manipulation and the quest…
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The Influence of Literary Monsters on the Post-Human Body (December 2018)
My article “The Influence of Literary Monsters on the Post-Human Body,” published in MERIDIAN of CRITICISM, explores how the figure of the literary monster influences post-human art. From Frankenstein to cyborgs, these motifs are reappropriated by artists like ORLAN and Joel-Peter Witkin to question the transformations of the body.