Pain and spirituality. Concepts present in women artists as a means of reindivication

Abstract

This research wants to show through a series of contemporary artists who use creative processes as a means of demand where the concept of pain is made explicit, some to reach other realities and others for the same experience. A process where spirituality manifests itself as a path of discovery that allows them to reach other realities and a rich aesthetic. Artists who have also had great teachers of spirituality as references. Productions that not only serve the artists to show suffering, but as a means of struggle in this society to claim the rights of women. A fact that not only occurs individually, but collectively, in that sense this article shows how different artists use the same concepts, even being a medium where curators and artistic agents have left testimony through exhibitions.

We wanted the present in its methodology to be ductile, adapting to the different situations that our research study has caused in the various fields and disciplines that we have taken into account. Text that has been transcribed from a fundamental research methodology in the crossing of different bibliographical references, related to the concepts treated. Those that have been analyzed later after the selection of those aspects that serve as a referential and conceptual framework. The research responds, on the one hand, to the specificity in the field of Fine Arts, supported by the analysis and consultation of the context of artistic practice. To this end, specialized writings, exhibition catalogues, art reviews, artist monographs, art magazines, articles and exhibitions and art collections have been visited. Subsequently, a selection and cataloging of plastic creators and significant works for the specific interests of the subject have been made.