When the fly speaks: storytelling through the mystical and superstitious body

Abstract

This article presents a part of the research proposal “Superstitious stories as an artistic strategy for the construction of the imagined reality”, a work that starts from developing the research + creation project Mosquerías, in which forms of storytelling in contemporary art are investigated. From stories about bodies that appear, contemporary mythologies, and mystical perspectives of the world, I explore the construction of reality from common imaginaries and what I call the “truth to ears”. The work aims to evidence the intersections and transversal ways of doing in art, in which it is possible to decenter the history of popular narratives, in the search for the processes of personal and collective memory, the discourses around identity, the migration of the word, the social representation of reality through manipulated discourse and the pragmatics of language that is manifested from artistic creation. To this end, I explore superstitious and mystical stories related to the image of the fly, presenting artistic backgrounds and exposing the work that has emerged so far from this research.