Exposición colectiva – Signos de una feminidad ampliada
Femininity is aculturally constructed concept, often shaped by stereotypes and normative expectations about how women should behave, appear, or be represented. Throughout history, this notion has been molded through aheteropatriarchal lens that has restricted its understanding and expression. In contemporary art, Sin embargo, many creators have challenged traditional representations of the female body, transforming it into aspace of resistance, protest, and subjective experience.
Cuban artists such asAdriana Mugia, Liudmila Velasco, Lancelot Alonso, Leo De la O Reyes, yDaniel Ernesto Martínez Reyes approach the concept of the “feminine” through identity-based or mythopoetic perspectives, revealing thesymbolic and emotional complexity embedded in this notion. In their work, femininity is not portrayed as a fixed essence or a biological category, but as anopen construct constantly redefined. This approach allows both male and female artists inarte cubano contemporáneo to embrace the feminine not as a closed mold, but as anexpanded field of possible meanings.
The representation of femininity varies according toeach artist’s aesthetic intentions, personal motivations, and the message they aim to convey. It may emerge from internal exploration—delving into memory, deseo, or identity—or as acritical response to normative discourses that attempt to impose a single model of womanhood. De este modo, these visual practices offernew ways of feeling, pensando, and imagining the body, gender, and their multiple narratives.
