Eva Amaral has raised a stormy wind on social networks. Like the tern of his native Aragon. The singer slipped her red sequined top while performing at the Sonorama Ribera festival in Aranda de Duero (Burgos) leaving her breasts in the air, with all intent, to sing Revolución Era, as she explained, a tribute to other artists who have used nudity as a complaint (Rocío Saiz, Rigoberta Bandini, Zahara, Miren, Bebe). “For all of us. So that no one can rob us of the dignity of our nakedness, the dignity of our fragility, of our strength.”
The local public, who applauded her at the time, was 35,000 people, but the action has gone beyond the town and has already been seen by a few million people through social networks. And, unlike his concert, he’s not getting the heat from all of them.
There is the group of offended people who think that showing breasts denigrates the image of women and “objectifies” them. There are those who think it is a marketing ploy to gain more audience. And there are also those who show indifference, detracting from its importance by remembering that there was a precursor, the Italian singer Sabrina Salerno, who in 1987, in the middle of a performance on TVE’s New Year’s Eve, lost her breast of her white top while dancing (the reminder of this story has been hot on old Twitter this weekend). These voices insist that it has rained a lot since then and a body no longer scandalizes because it does not have much meaning. That the advances conquered have no turning back.
But the tern on Twitter blew, to criticize or support, a sign that the image of some tits in the air stirs something. Those who feel that Amaral’s bare torso, in the style of Delacroix, is a powerful image that inspires and strengthens them to face a reactionary far-right movement that is spreading its ideological layer across Europe, no doubt think so. And that, despite Vox’s victory in the last general elections, the far-right groups rule in Spain. Since his arrival in the town councils and autonomous communities they have taken decisions on the removal of the rainbow flags, the arrest of the singer Rocío Saiz in Murcia for taking off her shirt at a concert on LGBTI pride day , the censorship of a work by Virginia Woolf or the suspension of Buzz Lightyear’s film…
“Historically, women have shown their breasts as an act of dissent against attempts to cut rights”, explains Alba Alfageme, a psychologist specializing in sexual violence, “it is a very powerful symbolic act that still generates, as we see, social impact”. keep on. “It’s sad that we’re like this”, he admits, “but at the same time he recognizes that women have a very powerful weapon to oppose, and this weapon is their own body, without artifices”.
Alfageme claims that it is not about showing the breasts, but about why they are shown, in what context, what does this still subversive action mean. And this ammo is only for the breasts, not any other part of the body.
“The intention to build a containment dyke is clear”, he assumes, “to say that the extreme right will not pass, which deploys its political ideology on women’s bodies. Without going too far, we are seeing it with the anti-abortion policy in European countries”.
For Beatriz Gimeno, a feminist researcher, Amaral reinforces female sorority. And this is especially important after the general elections in July, in which “the women’s vote was decisive in stopping the reactionary right, which thought that the 23rd of J would be a military parade”.
The forces of progressivism coincide. This is how they express it on social networks. The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has paraphrased Amaral to X: “For the dignity of our fragility, of our strength. We are too many”. Vice-president Yolanda Díaz does the same: “We are too many and they will not be able to pass over the life we ??want to inherit”.
And the socialist Adriana Lastra states: “Attacking artists who are considered progressive, censuring them in their town halls and/or communities, aims to be a lesson, a discipline. That way ‘they won’t dare to do it again’. Its sole aim is to appease freedom of expression. That’s why Amaral has offended them so much.”
Various feminist and progressive sensibilities can be seen recognized in the action of the vocalist of the Aragonese duo. “This encourages us to understand that we are all together against the extreme right”, considers Beatriz Gimeno.
