HE Many baths ago

Abstract

This work is part of a more general investigation about the poster as an aesthetic-political device. In an expanded definition, posters are assemblages between statements and visibilities beyond their objectification in usual supports such as banners. On the posters appears what an era can see and say. These mutual captures between the visible and the enunciatable form an archive that is fundamentally audiovisual. A part of this corpus or archive of posters occurs in the bathrooms. The bathrooms put into play disputes on which certain problems are tied between the public and private, the masculine and feminine, the outside and the inside, the virtual and analog, the anonymous and the personal, among other divisions, which allow us to think about the disagreement between statements. and visibilities, or what is the same, the conflictive relationship between art and politics that runs through artistic activism. What unites the following scenes is not a succession but a theme, which are the public baths, and the essay on some of their possible variations or dispersion in fact.