CORPOGRAPHY OF THE LIMIT. BETWEEN EROS AND TANATOS

Postmodernism has produced an ampliation of the visual field, opened out beyond the baroque apotheosis foretold by Walter Benjamin or the triumph of the simulacrum defended by authors like Jean Baudrillard. Irradiation of the mass media has led dismiss closed places of thinking, and in its place it has contributed to a knowledge that begins to diffuse out of the art specific channels. Aware of this contemporary scene, we treat in our research the self-referential image linked to the will of self-destruct from different artistic perspectives. The development of this perspectives about identity is aimed at defending our hypothesis, which seeks to corroborate how the extreme experience can be an active device and generator of knowledge, linked to the search for identity and self-affirmation of the subject.