Domestic Spaces Of Resistance: The Bed In Art Of 20th and 21st Centuries From A Gender Perspective

Abstract

The bed, as support and allegory of the body, alludes to our original human dependence, having a central function in the definition of the domestic sphere. Hence, this piece of furniture makes an issue on the question of intimacy and acquires a marked gender connotation since this sphere has traditionally been recognized as feminine. The domestic is the place of rest and comfort, but also of despised routine work, to whose visibility the deconstructive task of art and feminist criticism has contributed. Therefore, from the Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts, we will analyze the main exhibitions and the artworks of women artists who have addressed the bed critically from different media. Our genealogy will mainly cover the 20th and 21st centuries to value the relevance of said furniture as an enabling limit –as an often oppressive and aestheticizing scenario, but at the same time prone to subversion and resignification.