Teresa Cháfer Bixquert’s research while affiliated with Polytechnic University of Valencia and other places

This is the second article of a whole series of reflections in which our main objective is to recover the space that the women should never have lost. In them we review those heroines, combatants in a misogynistic society, who have been influential thinkers in the creative work developed by contemporary women artists. This article is centered on the figure of Hildegard von Bingen, a versatile and visionary nun, who left her legacy in different disciplines such as writing, painting, music, science, among others. A heroine, in which many artists have set their sights as a benchmark for empowerment and have directed their artistic work towards mysticism, generating a connection between art and spirituality. We collect a selection of artists who have used mysticism, silence and visions in their creative process to give voice to a gender problem in this society and to work in the fight for the recovery of a space that should always have belonged to the woman. Artists who, through their work, claim a place in a phallocentric society. Hildegard is a clear example of what we call female heroines in a misogynistic society.

p>La adversidad como infortunio ha formado parte de la inevitable existencia del ser humano, quien experimentándola en la propia piel ha tomado consciencia del mundo que le rodea. Estas experiencias, que siempre implican un aprendizaje, a veces suponen además una metamorfosis corporal en el individuo. Una información y/o deformación que condiciona vida y pensamiento. Para nosotros, además, supone un núcleo de reflexión, análisis y transmisión de conocimiento. Así mismo, como creadores nos permite el desarrollo de la práctica artística como medio de introspección, meditación y apropiación de nuestra experiencia. Experiencias adversas como el dolor, la muerte, la enfermedad, el sufrimiento y su impacto en el tiempo, han sido motivo de reflexión y motor de creación para artistas contemporáneos dentro del panorama nacional e internacional. En este artículo, desarrollado dentro de nuestra línea de investigación dedicada al arte y la enfermedad, nos centraremos en el análisis de la obra de Rossana Zaera y Teresa Cebrián, dos creadoras que, tratando temas de carácter transcultural para el individuo, han canalizado su propia vivencia de la realidad que las rodea por medio de la creación artística. Su reflexión e investigación les han permitido indagar en la oscura realidad que atormenta al ser humano y transmitirnos sus inquietudes a través de la amplitud de posibilidades en su representación artística.</p

This article is the first in a series of reflections in which our main objective is the recovery of space that should never lose women. We review those heroines women in a misogynist society, who have been influential thinkers in the creative work of contemporary art. This text is dedicated to Saint Teresa of Jesus, a heroine, in whom many artists have set their sights as a benchmark for empowerment and they have directed their work toward mysticism, creating a connection between art and spirituality. We collect a selection of artists who have used the mystical, pain, purple, silence, visions, and finally, ecstasy, in their creative process, to give voice to a gender problem in this society and to work in the struggle for the recovery of a space that had always belonged to women. Artists who, through their work, claim a place in a society culturally articulated by man. They are a clear example of what we have called heroines women in a misogynist society.