Foreigners
Keywords:
immigration, body, fragilityAbstract
Today, more than ever, it seems impossible to construct a work that has the body as its central element, considering only the restricted - albeit excessive - scope of visual representations. Our cultural context, in which multiple social, political, religious, legal, medical, scientific, and sexual representations of the body overlap, highlights the complexity that emerges from this emerging web of meanings. Similarly, we can no longer ignore the dynamic relationship that is established between the body of the work and the body of the observer at the moment of aesthetic fruition. This virtual space is always permeated by individual experiences in a constant, but not always conscious, dialogue with the other representations produced in the universe of culture. As expressed by Alain Corbin (2009, p. 9) : "The body is a fiction, a set of mental representations, an unconscious image that is elaborated, dissolved, reconstructed through the history of the subject, with the mediation of social discourses and symbolic systems." What is or what can the body be, this fragile and opaque wrapping that encloses the subject, the beginning and end of humanity itself? At this moment, the World seems without answers to this question. To the "Foreigners" or, simply, to those who are forcibly displaced for the maintenance of life, their right to freedom and symbolic exercise is suppressed, leaving them only the recognition of their own fragility: my body, my home.
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CORBIN, Alain. Introdução. In: CORBIN, Alain, COURTINE, Jean-Jacques, VIGARELLO, Georges. História do corpo: Da Revolução à Grande Guerra. Tradução de João Batista Kreuch, Jaime Clasen; revisão da tradução Ephrain Ferreira Alves – 3. Ed. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2009. (Volume dirigido por Alain Corbin)
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