Round and About

My research is focused on aspects of the dynamics of power, especially focused on the tensions regarding males and females. It is undoubtedly deeply connected to the studies of Sociology and Psychology.

            Through in exploring aspects of the process of identification related to the dynamics of power, I want to investigate the tensions regarding the identification with the feminine and the masculine within capitalistic society.

            I aim to enquire how exactly the relation between male and female is based on an opposite perspective and on the oppression on one by the other or, as on another level, it is the result of a capitalistic system that regulates society. I aim to explore in my work the confusion that emanates from this shifting role of women in society today in order to gain 'territory' in these power relations, and, what exactly is this 'deterritorialization' process (introduced by Felix Guattari) that women should be passing through.

            There is a concern also with aspects related to the body. I want to examine how the subjectivity of the body is constructed in various ways for different purposes, and how global capitalism acts as a direct force in these processes of individualization, identification and singularization. In the capitalistic model society, we personalize ourselves. There is the “modelization” of individuals. In this context how women place themselves? Is there really a process of 'deterritorialization' in course or women positions themselves in new subjects, in order to conform to the new society?

            The relevance of my research lies in questioning the 'subjectivity' that is built into each human being in order to be an individual in a social system. This process of 'subjectification' is somehow unconscious for each individual. Foucault, studying power, announced the importance of this study since it is not only related to the 'state' but it affects each of us as individuals.

            Through this perspective, in my work I'm interested in how this process of becoming a subject interferes in the unconscious. I'm involved with the tensions, ruptures and chaos generated by this unconscious, rather than the notions of order. I struggle against the straight line and the notions of balance that conditions the mind. 

            In my art practice I question those aspects of regulation over society and the individual. Definitely my experience in Architecture made me become more critical about what this discipline is and its relation to authority. I understand Architecture as a tool for the establishment of concepts and rules inherent to the logic of contemporary society. Following Bataille's idea in his “Against Architecture”, it is in this arena that the male/female forces assume different roles to balance society and/or to control it.