Nude aesthetics of the disabled persons: a political and anti-normative political analysis

Abstract

In every society, the body has always been in the clutches of powers that impose limits and prohibitions on it. In contemporary times, however, the dispositive for monitoring the body have expanded, aiming to disassemble and reassemble it based on established norms. From this machinery emerges a binary understanding of human corporeality: on one side, the healthy, beautiful, normal, and the efficient; on the other, the sick, ugly, abnormal, and disabled. Given this scenario, it is important that we create an environment in which it is possible to form free citizens who are artists of themselves, who turn their lives into works of. This article reflects on the antinormative nudity of people with disabilities, while trying to answer the following questions: What does it mean to have an abnormal body? Does the disabled person have a body that carries an aesthetic? The answer to these questions will be brought through political philosophy reflections and with my artistic works. I am, hoping to bring the invisible effects that the machinery of governmentality has on the bodies of people with disabilities to the surface of public dialogue while, at the same time, creating a locus that enables the visibility of these same bodies.