"El cuerpo de verdad": The Potency of Magali Lara's Unpictured Bodies.
This article explores a suite of six prints made by the Mexican artist Magali Lara in 1984 that present a series of views onto bathrooms. Although the artist never pictures bodies, the images manage to articulate women's bodily realities. Haunting details—a squat toilet, its lid propped up; a roll o...
| Publicado en: | Art Journal Vol. 82; no. 4; pp. 38 - 55 |
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