(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-11-23) Vergara, Nataly
Art as a discursive essence can become a means of reflection on our social reality. Madre Nuestra, by the plastic artist Luz Letts (2018), is an example of this, as this work represents an all-powerful woman who sustains the nation and questions gender stereotypes and violence against women in Peru. In turn, she realizes the powerful relationship of this with the land and territory, and it motivates us to think about the mutual support between women to fight the domination towards the female body and towards the natural world. Thus, it proposes the creation of a female collective identity as a force of the nation, a community defense of land and territory in the process of building a more just society. Finally, it outlines the need to rethink our country with an ecoterritorial and ecofeminist twist.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-28) Rojas Virijivich, Rodolfo
This essay addresses the issue of social imaginaries in Peru and their relationship with the advertising of the Inca Kola soft drink brand, focusing on the concepts of simulation and simulacrum. Social imaginaries are shared representations that influence the way people perceive their social reality, and are expressed through stories, legends, myths and images. On the other hand, simulation refers to the creation of copies without an original, images of things that do not exist, and simulacrum implies the disturbance and challenge of reality itself. The reflection seeks to establish a link between these concepts and analyze how Inca Kola’s advertising constructs social imaginaries based on simulations, instead of reality. This raises the problem of idealizing aspects of reality that cannot be fulfilled, since simulation originates in the utopia of equivalence. According to Baudrillard (1994/1998, Chapter 2), we live in a society where reality and representations are confused, and simulation is based on the belief that everything can be replaced by its image.