Humanos y humanoides. Autorrepresentación, identidad y deformación de la figura humana en el arte contemporáneo

Abstract

If contemporary art had the opportunity to abandon figuration and dive into the abstract and conceptual, our research tries to rescue the human figure as a key element of contemporary art, a way of re-humanization of art, universal reflection on the origins and preview the future of man. The danger of disappearing of the human being due to the confrontation to an increasingly hostile environment, polluted and technologized, will be expressed by creations that seek to return to materiality of the body as well as providing, at the same time, the metaphorical possibilities of self-construction in the image. Therefore art appears as tool of resistance, a mechanism to understand their essence and explore their limits. The art understands that man, both in its presentation and representation, faces different kinds of deformations that show that it is impossible to reduce human identity to the traditional idea of the oneness and wholeness.