Vindicating without Exposing. Translucent Strategies in Rosa Valverde’s Self-Portraits
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvii.11.2023.37858Keywords:
Rosa Valverde; self-portrait; translucent strategy; affect theory; feminist historiographyAbstract
This paper seeks to present and analyse a group of self-portraits by artist Rosa Valverde (1953-2015). Its first objective is to introduce an artist still barely researched. It uses therefore a number of self-representations as painter, in order to understand how she used them to claim herself as a professional artist. The analysis is based on affect theory, and it proposes the term “translucent strategy” to qualify the artist’s system to represent herself without exposing her female body. This strategy would respond to the feeling of shame that being a woman in a patriarchal art system provoked in her. We propose to define this strategy as feminine, re-signifying the term to define the ensemble of gender-biased experiences that women artists of the last quarter of 20th century shared, and that might have led them to develop similar response strategies.
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