Body, Sexuality, and Image: The Human and the Intimate is an exhibition organized within the framework of the Costa Rica International Film Festival. It addresses the body as a traumatic place, but also as the epicenter of artistic creation and the gaze, a source of narratives that ultimately give rise to all kinds of imaginaries fueled by the intimate, the violent, by what stirs us, hurts us, and somehow inspires us to think and change. The body in its relationship with the world, with other bodies, constantly pierced by stigmas, fears, feelings and metamorphoses, is the common thread that connects all the works in this proposal.
Being a (human) body entails assuming responsibilities and myriads of possibilities. We project onto it the cultural and social images that help us to shape it and hold it. However, being a body also implies rebelling against those forms, thinking about desire and identity through manipulation and exploration, questioning its behaviour according to what we are taught we are in order to expand and enrich it to the point of deforming it, of transcending it, and to understand that our body also exists in others, connected to a huge network. Intimacy then becomes a common stage where we represent ourselves, rehearse ourselves, and above all, find ourselves.
