Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

Counter-images of the Female Body in the Work of Contemporary Latin American Photographers. An Analysis of the Exhibition “Gentleman, this is a breast.” Can a photographic perspective decolonize the representations of the female body? How do the limits of nude stereotypes, promoted through art history, change in this photographic exhibition? What new ways of thinking about and doing contemporary Latin American art have been influenced by recent feminist movements? Based on the theories presented in Encounters in the Online Feminist Museum by Griselda Pollock, this paper explores some of the complex relations between femininity, post-modernity, and self-representation in the images of nine female Latin American Photographers.