Adversidad y resiliencia como recurso en la creación artística de Rossana Zaera y Teresa Cebrián

Abstract

[ES] 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 han formado parte de la metamorfosis corporal y han servido de aprendizaje. Una información de carácter individual que puesta en común ha ayudado en la creación de conocimiento. 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 como Rossana Zaera y Teresa Cebrián –sobre las que centraremos el artículo- o artistas como Natividad Navalón, Francisca Lita o Ángeles Marco. Artistas que, tratando en su obra temas de carácter transcultural para el individuo, han canalizado su propia vivencia de la realidad que las rodea. Su reflexión e investigación han permitido indagar en la oscura realidad que atormenta al ser humano, sus inquietudes y su amplia posibilidad de representación artística.

[EN] Adversity as misfortune has been a part of the inevitable existence of the human being, who, in experimenting such misfortune in their own flesh, has become aware of the world around them. These experiences, which always imply a learning process, sometimes also involve an individual’s bodily metamorphosis. An information and/or deformation which conditions life and thought. To us, furthermore, this becomes a nucleus for reflection, analysis, and transmission of knowledge. Likewise, as creatives, this allows us to develop our craft as a means of introspection, meditation, and appropriation of our experience. Adverse experiences such as pain, death, illness, suffering, and their impact on time have been a reason for reflection and creative fuel for contemporary artists within the national and international panorama. In this article, which is developed within our line of research concerning art and illness, we will focus on an analysis of the works of Rossana Zaera and Teresa Cebrián. These two artists, who, in dealing themes of transcultural character for the individual, have channeled their own experience of reality which surrounds them through artistic creation. Their reflection and investigation have allowed them to delve into the dark reality which torments the human being and to transmit their concerns through the width of possibilities their artistic representation grants.