Miradas fragmentarias: sobre los desnudos en la obra fotográfica de Norma Patino

Abstract

This text (in fact a collection of brief texts) suggests an approach to Norma Patifio's photographs from the conjunction ofthree analytical points of view: a retlection on the photographic act and its object, a reflection on the meaningful condition of the gaze and the limits o f its possibility to grasp the wholeness o f the body together with the spectra of its senses, and a reflection on the corporal experience and the nudity in the domains o f eroticism . The different photographic series of Norma Patifio, that explores through dissimilar means this three spheres of the body's signification and the iconic force of the photographic image, use and recreate a vast repertory of esthetical resources from the tradition ofthe photographic nude, yet they bring to light its limits, its fractures, they stress the evidence of the drifting tensions in the apprehension of corporality, and in the paradoxes of the representation of the body and of the transgression as play.