期刊名称：Miradas - Elektronische Zeitschrift für Iberische und Ibero-amerikanische Kunstgeschichte
印刷版ISSN：2363-8087
出版年度：2015
卷号：2
页码：23-31
DOI：10.11588/mira.2015.0.22428
语种：English
出版社：Miradas - Elektronische Zeitschrift für Iberische und Ibero-amerikanische Kunstgeschichte
摘要：This article will borrow W.J.T. Mitchell´s iconological analysis in order to examine the work of Dominican artist Belkis Ramírez, whose installations show an interest in challenging the role of the spectator and in propelling her/him to act critically. I will focus here on the installation “ De la misma madera ” , an artwork awarded the first prize in the 1994 edition of the Dominican Biennial of that year and one of the most recognized installations of contemporary Dominican art. I argue that installations such as De la misma madera exemplify the interest of contemporary Caribbean artists in troubling the position of the spectator as well as in generating a pedagogy of images that can be approached only through experience. By those means, Ramírez challenges a direct adscription of her work to the task of illustrating any specific issue. In this article I explore how this ambivalence generates a concern on expressive freedom and emotive emancipation that transcends passive contemplation and representation.
