Voy a enseñarte lo que no puedes ver: Francesca Woodman y la reescritura del fantasma

This article will review the motif of the ghost as a resource of the fantastic by approaching the Freudian concept of the unheimlich in the series House and On being an angel by the American photographer Francesca Woodman, in which she reflects the concealment of her own representation before the viewer and a deliberate confusion with a decadent environment. In the following lines we will show how Woodman carries out a rewriting of the ghost as a transforming agent "symbolic fruit of a violence that wants to be history" in the words of Sandra Gasparini, capable of making possible the reparation of a collective female trauma such as the confinement of women in the home reflected by Victorian writers and the tradition of "female gothic". Woodman's work cultivates an artistic perspective that yearns to go beyond the physical and mental limits that have relegated women authors to the threshold of the canon.