My Beautiful Monsters
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If there’s a recurring theme through the history of art, it is the theme of the monster. The monstrous, understood as that which disturbs conventional imagination, arouses all kinds of attraction to those who carry out the creative work as it allows us to understand the political, aesthetic or moral coordinates of a given culture.
We can date back this fascination to the mythical representations of the ancient times, when people represented their gods -that is- those creatures placed out of the human, in the very confines of language, as creatures with truly monstrous characteristics.
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