Arte cubano contra la homofobia: Corpus frágile, una poética de resistencia

Abstract

This article analyzes the series entitled Corpus Frágile from the Cuban artist Eduardo Hernández Santos (Havana, 1966). This work makes us face the fragments of a body fed by the complex predicament that implies being gay in Cuba. These photographies build a man who dismantled the patriarchal stereotype of masculinity and knocks down the obsolete male pattern created by the Cuban revolution over the past fifty-six years. These and other maneuvers feed the ideological burden of Corpus frágile in order to build a personal iconography of resistance.