Eulalia Valldosera's Cathartic Body Art
Eulalia Valldosera explores sexual identity through staged self-portraiture, drawing on lived experiences. Her fragmented body appears in drawings, installations, performances, and photographs, associated with dirt, pain, and disgust. The work reflects the rejection of the body by Christianity, prevalent in her native Catalonia. Lacking harmony or serenity, her oeuvre functions as a catharsis and self-analysis of a supra-human, quasi-mystical order.
Key facts
- Eulalia Valldosera explores sexual identity through her own body
- Her work includes drawings, installations, performances, and photographs
- The body is depicted as fragmented, associated with dirt and pain
- The work reflects Christian rejection of the body in Catalonia
- The oeuvre is described as lacking harmony or serenity
- The work functions as a catharsis and self-analysis
- The analysis is of a supra-human, quasi-mystical order
- The article was published in artpress in April 1995
Entities
Artists
- Eulalia Valldosera
Institutions
- artpress
Locations
- Catalonia
Sources
- artpress —