Cultural bodies
Cultural Bodies: Cristina Jadic (USA). ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Houston, Texas, USA Ethnographer and Cultural Theorist, Research Associate, Anthropology Department- Rice University Cristina Jadick is a young Cuban American Artist born in the United States. Her visual work is characterized by a strong personal style, that places us on a new and provocative road at the intersection between the languages of Contemporary Art and cultural performances that explore identity and memory. Today in a world of growing information complexity and generalized markets, the definitions of "the aesthetic" as well as "the beautiful" are outdated. The aesthetic, in a highly pragmatized universe, acts as a therapeutic vehicle to define the everyday experiences and becomes an ideal place to explore cultural resonances and values that may not be expressed in the typifying language of common sense. The exhibit presented here, "Cultural Bodies", is an example of t...