Corps et Androgynie dans la Santa Liberata de Nelson Garrido
The Body and androgyny in Nelson Garrido’s Santa Liberata

Summary/Abstract: The image of Santa Liberata brings together in its iconography the archetypes of the crucifixion and androgyny. In the Venezuela, photographer Nelson Garrido (1952) has reclaimed the bearded martyr in order to propose a photographic reflection over sacred eroticism, the sanctified body, and primordial androgyny. To understand the re-signification process of this image we will study the iconographic transformations of Santa Liberata, using two processes: the physical and spiritual masculinisation of christian martyrs and its relation with tricological aspects and its capacity to generate meanings, and the updating of primordial androgyny. Finally, we will study the visual and symbolic procedures used by Nelson Garrido in his Santa Liberata (1989) to build a body that is both, erotic and sacred ascribed to the coincidentia oppositorum.

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