Configuration of Subjectivities in Contemporaneity: Performance Writing about the Production of the Spanish-Mexican Artist Remedios Varo

Abstract

Abstract This reflective work consists of performance writing about the production of the Spanish-Mexican artist Remedios Varo. Performance writing is an approach based on aesthetic cognition. It is a way of understanding knowledge that privileges the possibilities of a sensitive encounter with the world around us, and that understands life as a constant movement of the energy that is the breath of all beings and cosmic density. The encounter with Varo’s works has been constructed through conversation and analysis of two experiences, one in Nobsa, Colombia and the other in Mexico City. These experiences became the keys to accessing Varo’s and her artistic works’ highly creative, subjective universe made up of dynamic networks that interconnect some worlds with others. Varo’s works reflect the way in which contemporary subjectivities are configured, in how spaces and bodies comprise complex, dramatic and emotional universes.