CELEBRADAS deals with various ideals that materialize into images and various images that dematerialize into ideals. We can call them 'corporeal images'. 'Corporeal' refers to everything related to the body, that presents a body, that represents a body. Images are representations. “Everything that was once lived directly has become a representation”, including the body. CELEBRADAS emerges from a series of reflections on the relationship between the body and media, specifically on the equation media x body x media, where the physical body primarily serves to generate more images. However, it's not just anybody, but the female body. Social relations today are more than ever mediated by media images. The objects of analysis here are the culture of celebrities and ideals regarding what the female body is or should be. The feminine is a myth and the body is a spectacle. In a historical moment known as the 'Age of Images', who creates, regulates, and disseminates these corporeal images, and who truly benefits from doing so? Corporeal images create demarcation lines, which are objective and subjective, biological and artificial, real and fictitious. How tangible are these corporealities?
Núbia Fernamo
CELEBRADAS deals with various ideals that materialize into images and various images that dematerialize into ideals. We can call them 'corporeal images'. 'Corporeal' refers to everything related to the body, that presents a body, that represents a body. Images are representations.
“Everything that was once lived directly has become a representation”, including the body. CELEBRADAS emerges from a series of reflections on the relationship between the body and media, specifically on the equation media x body x media, where the physical body primarily serves to generate more images. However, it's not just anybody, but the female body. Social relations today are more than ever mediated by media images. The objects of analysis here are the culture of celebrities and ideals regarding what the female body is or should be. The feminine is a myth and the body is a spectacle.
In a historical moment known as the 'Age of Images', who creates, regulates, and disseminates these corporeal images, and who truly benefits from doing so? Corporeal images create demarcation lines, which are objective and subjective, biological and artificial, real and fictitious. How tangible are these corporealities?