Images, Testimonies, and Wounds

• Autor: Perrone, Nicolás
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/26916
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/kaylla/article/view/26916
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Kamar; Teatro testimonial; Herida; Política; Pathos de la imagen; Testimonial Theater; Wound; Politics; Image Pathos; Teatro Testemunhal; Ferida; Pathos de Imagem

This paper delves into the poetics of Kamar, a theatrical group from La Rioja, Argentina. The analysis shows the aesthetic-political interests that are configured in their productions as part of a politics of the gaze. In this context, we analyze the play Nosotras en el espejo to understand the synthesis of the group's theatrical research in a particular piece. The key analysis of this play revolves around the image of the wound, materialized in a production whose origin is found in testimonies of gender violence. The use of the testimonial theatrical device allows the exploration of a game of mirrors that alters the spectator's passive gaze and transmutes it into an emancipated and active gaze, conjugated in the order of affections and performative action.