Abstracts Anthropology

En la piel de la latexgrafía: una propuesta creativa para la gráfica actual

by Priscilla Romero Cubero

[EN] This thesis is entitled In the skin of latexgraphy: a creative proposal for current graphics. Research that brings together the differential contributions of latexgraphy as a unique printmaking technique in the field of expanded graphics in contemporary art. We start from the artistic creation in relation to the notion of the body, and properly of the skin as a symbolic border between our being and the world; surface in whose imprint the graphic memory of our existence and identity is recorded, the same that thanks to the implementation of our technique, we can transmute into an expressive material, within the framework of a collaborative creative process between the public and us. In the first part, we elaborate an introduction to the technique of latexgraphy, its meaning and practice, contemplating the most relevant concepts and the systematization of the process through the identification, description and justification of its variables. Later we study the antecedents and theoretical-practical axes of the discourses of expanded graphics, with which we identify our research, to finally list the differential contributions that, from latexgraphy, we make to the current artistic field. In a second part we make an approach to the poetic reflections that from latexgraphic practice we have woven around the concepts of the body, its image and the metaphors of the skin, from an interdisciplinary perspective combining both the contributions of artistic references and the approaches that from philosophy, sociology, anthropology and medicine are given to the concepts in question, from the mid-twentieth century to the present day in the West. Finally, the third part is dedicated to the artistic research included in the corpus of own work, where we present the results obtained from the Embodied Memory project, an individual exhibition conceptualized and executed within the framework of this thesis, as well as the latest advances made in relation to latexgraphy, in the pieces developed during the year 2021.