Symbols of masculinity (s)

Research for the creation of a visual proposal about gender

Abstract

The present text emerges as a process of artistic research that aims to elaborate a visual proposal about the problematic of masculine identity in the current social and cultural context. For this, it is necessary to generate a theoretical framework on the subject of gender, starting with the feminist theories and the studies of masculinity, which will allow to establish the categories of analysis from which the imaginary will arise for the elaboration of the visual proposal. It starts from the notions of the gender understood as social construction, and therefore establishes a visual reference link with the city as a material manifestation of the structures of meaning that delimit the processes of elaboration of identity of the individuals. Finally, on the basis of a semiotic analysis methodology regarding the set of signs and symbols that make up the imaginary built from the categories proposed by the theoretical framework, a visual proposal will be articulated through pictorial language that poses a questioning the rigidity of these structures, alluding to the diversity of masculinities that are experienced today.