AN APPROACH TO THE SUBVERSIVE GAZE IN LATIN-AMERICAN POLITICAL ART

This article proposes that a common thread unites the subversive gaze of political art in Latin-American territories affected by social conflict. This vision of contemporary Latin-American art is based on the correspondence between art, politics and social relations of power. This study offers an open proposal oriented toward an aesthetics of subversion, which is based on a discussion of artistic creation emerging from social denunciation and political commitment. Rather than a diachronic study of art history, this project aims at a theoretical reflection on art that finds its inspiration in the political convulsions arising from the oppression suffered in Latin America. In conclusion, this study provides, from the interdisciplinary perspective of cultural studies, a foundation for a visual culture based on the aestheticization of insubordination, artistically inspired political mobilization, and the artistic visualization of human conflict.