Del descanso forzado a la cama interconectada como espacio de creación. Escenarios posibles desde las prácticas artísticas contemporáneas = From Forced Rest to the Interconnected Bed as a Space for Creation. Possible Stages in Contemporary Art Practices

Abstract

El reposo al que la enfermedad conduce para mitigar el dolor encuentra –cultural e historicamente– como escenario paradigmatico el lecho, la cama. Este mueble, en tanto metafora corporal, suele ser testigo de acontecimientos como el nacimiento, la enfermedad, la sexualidad y el erotismo o la muerte. En el arte, ha devenido tropo frecuente al exponer dichas cuestiones, conduciendo a una re-experimentacion creativa del espacio domestico. Analizaremos una genealogia de artistas que aportan otra mirada a este enser por el que el cuerpo pasa , y que, debido a la experiencia de la enfermedad y el trauma, se resignifica, llevando al autor a replantar su propio habitar e incluso su practica artistica. Partiremos de la Estetica y la Historia del Arte para localizar las principales exposiciones sobre el tema y pondremos en relacion a los artistas que han tratado la cama como repositorio de dicho padecer. Abstract The repose to which the disease leads to mitigate the pain, finds –culturally and historically– as a paradigmatic scenario the bed. This piece of furniture, as a body metaphor, is usually witness of events such as birth, disease, sexuality and eroticism or death. In art, the bed has become a frequent trope especially to expose the illness as a moment of forced rest in which it is possible to creatively re-experience the domestic. We propose a genealogy of artists who bring another look to this belonging that, due to the experience of pain, trauma or disease, is re-signified, leading the author to reconsider his own habitat. We will start from Aesthetics and History of Art to analyse the main exhibitions on the subject and we will put in relation the artists who have treated the bed as a repository of said suffering.