Art as a guaranty of sanity: The Skin I Live In
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2014
Authors
Laine, Tarja
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Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
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Abstract
This article examines how the body in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In (2011) is incorporated in artistic creation and vice versa. Drawing upon Paul Crowther’s notion of an internal relation between the artist’s experience and the work of art, it argues that the film communicates a vision of embodied artistic practice as a redemptive strategy used to resolve trauma resulting from the traditional body/soul dualism. A film that outlines how artistic creation can both express fractured inner reality and purge it from negative affect, The Skin I Live In demonstrates how the artist can overcome trauma, reinvent the sense of self, and reclaim personal agency.
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Body , Skin , Art , Soul , Trauma , Inner reality , Pedro Almodóvar , Dualism
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Laine, T. (2014) 'Art as a guaranty of sanity: The Skin I Live In', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 7. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.7.02