Cartografías del silencio: poéticas visuales de la soledad como puente hacia lo colectivo

Abstract

Abstract: This research examines loneliness as an aesthetic experience in the contemporary era. To this end, it draws upon the work of Edward Hopper and Louise Bourgeois whose approaches to spatiality and isolation offer insight into states of introspection as conceptual touchstones. Employing a methodological framework rooted in artistic practice and autoethnography, the project utilizes memory and personal experience as critical tools, informed by the theories of scholars such as Graeme Sullivan and Carolyn Ellis. The development of earlier works, such as *Mi sombra* (My Shadow) and *Amor lejano* (Distant Love), highlighted the need to explore the body through its volumetric dimension. Consequently, this inquiry culminates in the sculptural piece *Lo que arde no siempre se ve* (What Burns Is Not Always Visible) a clay-modeled torso, born from personal experiences of solitude, which articulates the tension between external resilience and internal vulnerability. The work presents a structured body containing an invisible void revealed through its cracks and hollows which is further framed by an encompassing structure that physically defines the state of isolation.