Deconstruir y reimaginar “lo femenino”. Relecturas del arte visual feminista en dos intervenciones callejeras producidas durante la revuelta de octubre de 2019 en Chile

Natalia Toledo Jofré

doi:10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73054

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Deconstructing and reimagining "the feminine". Re-readings of feminist visual art in two street interventions produced during the October 2019 revolt in Chile.

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Natalia Toledo Jofré Universidad de Chile https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9867-8914

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https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73054

Abstract

This article presents a critical approach to two works of street art that were installed on the walls of Santiago during the Chilean social revolt of 2019. The selected images correspond to the two extremes that patriarchal discourses have configured regarding female subjectivity throughout from western history: the Virgin and the sexual devourer. The approach that this article formulates is that both visual proposals present, from an aesthetic-political perspective, a feminist deconstruction of the symbology with which these characters had been represented from the canonical art of patriarchal logic. The purpose is to appropriate these traditional representations to twist them and project re-readings that dialogue with the new feminist subjectivities, manifested as a necessity within the demands of the social revolt.

Keywords:

street art, Chilean social revolt of 2019, female subjectivity, feminist deconstruction

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Toledo Jofré, N. (2023). Deconstructing and reimagining "the feminine". Re-readings of feminist visual art in two street interventions produced during the October 2019 revolt in Chile. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 143–176. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73054