Cuerpo heredado

EDITION

2023, Special mention

school

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

The act of pose in front of a camera consists of molding, for an instant, the body with which one wishes to be perceived. My home was never exempt from the body stereotypes in which women find themselves submerged. Since I was little, I have observed how the female figures of my family pose for a few seconds, shaping automatically their bodies, while a camera shutters in front of them. After gaining weight and perceiving my body outside of stereotypes, unconsciously I began to imitate, as a pattern, the action that they silently projected onto me. Through an intimate and self-look, in the photographic project “Cuerpo heredado” I imitated and exaggerated the repetitive poses that I found in the family photographic archive. My mother was the main image, because she was the most important female figure during my growth and she, like me, is the reflection of other woman generations that have suffered repression towards their bodies, for the mere fact of being a woman. “Cuerpo Heredado” aims to express, through a series of videos, the disagreement that I felt about my body; a feeling that, unconsciously, I inherited and that most likely, like me, she inherited. This project is a reflection on my body healing process and on the way in which we can treat our bodies during this incessant search to fit into a stereotype imposed from the patriarchal perspective.