Profanando o improfanável: fetos em arte
Resumo
O objectivo deste ensaio é reflectir sobre a cada vez maior exposição mediática do embrião e do feto tanto na cultura científica como no imaginário cultural e popular, assim como sobre as consequências e contestações dessa maior visibilidade, a partir de algumas representações artísticas e literárias. Será dada especial atenção ao trabalho dos artistas Suzanne Anker, Damien Hirst e Marc Quinn, assim como da escritora Sylvia Plath, como ilustrações contemporâneas da aparente autonomia e crescente iconicidade dessacralizada do feto, que inserido num discurso que enfatizava a sua “santidade” é transposto agora para um contexto que sublinha a sua faceta mais profana e secular. Será utilizado especialmente o trabalho teórico da historiadora de ciência Donna Haraway, de Paul Virilio e de Giorgio Agamben, em particular “Elogio da Profanação”, para ajudar a analisar a ética visual das representações em questão.
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