Erotismo y transgresión como instrumentos de liberación. Entre la censura, lo sagrado y lo profano

Abstract

The existence of Eros is as old as time, it was conceived by human beings in the same instant as reason, and despite the mythological context that precedes it, Eros is as human as it is heavenly, worldly as it is sublime, sometimes ephemeral, other sometimes transgressive and vulnerable; eroticism does not conceive pornography, it has no sin, much less censorship or condemnation. This work recognizes Eros as the divine experience that transgresses the limits of the body and consciousness, transforming man’s sexual energy into the big bang of all forces. Next, this work aims to show the nature of Eros through time, photography and nude portraiture from a religious, cultural, social and artistic perspective that recognizes the fears and demons that haunt the subject in the memory of the Western individual during centuries. In addition, the social and religious deconstruction of erotic interpretation and its diverse and controversial passions is also explored, such as in the case of bondage, voyeurism and the little death. Finally, as a result of this work, the photographic project Cuenca con C de Curuchupa1 was born, which as a visual essay portrays the history of eroticized bodies that are often socially censored, from the diverse, intimate and real gaze of the nude. It is important to mention that all this would not have been possible if it were not in thanks to the collaboration of each of the people who participated voluntarily through a call that lasted about eight months and was intended to be constituted as a social photographic exercise of a nature documentary that investigates the assimilation of the erotic nude from different perspectives. The project brings together in its entirety 60 photographs distributed in three rooms, in which it is intended to show the individual as the common thread of a narrative where naked bodies unfold in the center of a social coexistence exercise, but above all sacred, that in turn converges in photography, the materialization of an artistic language, allowing us to engage in a dialogue and an analysis on the behaviors of the contemporary individual, religion, and the erotic experience from spirituality, above censorship, but above all, the sovereignty of Eros with respect to the skins stripped of their ties and the diversity of bodies having as support, the reality of eroticism in an inner exercise of being.