AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE

The rhetorical figure of the overflowing body-subject does not refer to the absence of cleanliness or health, but to “whatever disturbs an identity, a system, an order. That which does not respect the limits, the places, the rules. The complicity, the ambiguous, the mixed”. The abject (material and symbolic) body confronts us with those fragile states where man enters the territories of the animal, of the primitive, of the uncivilized.

 

In the work of Rocio Boliver you can see the abjection in the material and symbolic, in the incarnated body. The body as a physical space overflowing through its orifices linked to the three phases of the development process of the individual that Sigmund Freud enunciated: oral, anal and genital. The three phases and their bodily waste such as menstrual fluid, urine, excrement, vomit, the product of an abortion and the corpse. This category establishes in the abject the condition of something that has fallen, that comes from me, but is outside of me.

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- Beatriz Garduño Mejía,
Professor of Art History