Cannibalism, hybridization and protest
Abstract
This article deals with several works that relate the body to cannibalism as a metaphor for protest. Cannibalism continues to be one of the great social taboos and serves as a conceptual way to denounce and make different issues visible, such as those social, historical, personal, among others. Many artists have used this taboo throughout art history. This article delves solely into the works of Tania Bruguera, Minette Vari, Pathy Chang, and Ivan Izquierdo.
In most cases, these artists assume the role of the "savage" and devour content to make what is foreign to them their possession, to digest external reality, and internalize it with different results.
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