| Nada sabe tan bien como sentirse delgado / México /Laura Gisela Herrera Mendoza
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels #THINSPO es una pieza de videoperformance que indaga en los mecanismos mediante los cuales el control disciplinar de los cuerpos produce y sostiene un régimen corporal hegemónico, particularmente en las corporalidades feminizadas. La obra parte de una consigna ampliamente difundida en la cultura de la delgadez para evidenciar cómo el control, disfrazado de autocuidado, se traduce en prácticas de violencia cotidiana ejercidas sobre el propio cuerpo.
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels #THINSPO is a video performance piece that explores the mechanisms by which the disciplinary control of bodies produces and sustains a hegemonic bodily regime, particularly in feminized bodies. The work begins with a widely disseminated slogan in thinness culture to reveal how control, disguised as self-care, translates into practices of everyday violence exerted on one's own body. In the video performance, the artist's body is presented as a territory inscribed with norms that are not individual, but rather historical and social. The piece exposes the logic of discipline, which consists of counting, measuring, restricting, and correcting. This action does not seek to literally represent a diet or an eating disorder, but rather to stage the internalization of a mandate that regulates the relationship with food, pleasure, and survival. The body depicted is not idealized, but rather permeated by anxiety and compulsive repetition, for whom the act of eating ceases to be an action linked to nutrition and pleasure, becoming instead a field of control and punishment. The work underscores that this dysregulation of eating is not an individual failing, but a direct consequence of a system that promotes constant self-monitoring. From a critical and feminist perspective, the video performance highlights how these mandates affect women differently, whose bodies have been historically regulated and corrected. The piece does not propose a narrative of overcoming these conditions, but rather an act of exposure, making the harm visible in order to deactivate its normalization. In this sense, the work is configured as a space of symbolic reclamation, where the body, by revealing its fragility and contradictions, questions the regime that oppresses it and opens the possibility of imagining other ways of relating to food and to existence itself. |
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https://www.youtube.com/@lauragiselaherreramendoza Laura Gisela, ella, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México, 2000. |