Week 4: Presenter’s Artist: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

            In medieval ages, human body was defined as divine creation of God which can be described with sacred geometries. Since then artists became interested in discovering human body, and this became the subject of all kinds of art, such as paintings, sculptures, architecture. However, in modernism era, 19^th Century, after series of urban transformation, human body was considered as private and should be covered from the public. Now here we are in the 21^st century in which artists would do anything to get their point across, and the strongest form of art is the one that an artist presents his or her naked body in a designed scene.

            Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is a Chicana artist who has no fear of expressing her feelings through presentation of her body. The moment that the visitors realize that the art is the live- naked body of the artist is very shocking. Tatiana truly showed how our surrounding forces can make us feel about ourselves, and these forces can gradually and painfully evaporate our lives. This reminded me of Museum of Man in San Diego in which a Native American artist, James Luna, presented his naked body as an artifact to show the social injustice in the Unite States.  Unfortunately the rest of Tatiana’s works in the presentation were very simple and lacked a sense of artistic representation.