In the last few decades, LGBTQI and feminist movements have gained a more vocal position, bringing into question the values related to traditional concepts of masculinity. However, this is neither the first nor the last time masculinity has been in crisis. Through repetition, it has not only consolidated but also reinvented itself in turbulent times in history. A Soep examines the athletic white male body, an embodiment of masculinity that is consistently present in art history. With drawings, recordings, animations, and wallpaper, this type of body is modified to find how possible it is to change its meaning.
La crisis de la masculinidad ha sido un grito de urgencia constante durante la historia de la humanidad. Los hombres no siendo suficientemente hombres, es lo que mantiene a conceptos tradicionales de masculinidad vigentes, al forzar la renovación o reinterpretación de los valores que estos conceptos encarnan. A Soep explora la representación del cuerpo del hombre atlético blanco, un arquetipo constantemente reproducido en la historia del arte occidental. Haciendo uso de dibujo, grabaciones sonoras, animaciones y papel de colgadura, El Corruptor explora qué posibilidades hay en alterar este arquetipo ancestral.
Date: 2020
Photographs by Davide Ghelli Santuliana
