Irini Picolou

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT IRINI PICOLOU

My research at BA and MA have mainly focused on Renaissance art and literature, as well as on modern theories concerning the relationship between gender, pain, and sexuality. My studies of gender throughout my master\'s degree have constituted an effective basis for my doctoral thesis entitled \'Gender and Corporeality in the Paintings of Bartolomé Bermejo\', supervised by Professor Andy Beresford and Dr Yarí Pérez Marín. In this research project, I explore how Bermejo\'s paintings, which constitute a sculptural quality to them, progressive for the fifteenth-century artistic market, can introduce novel ways of considering how gender is constructed anatomically and conceptually, through gendered power relations in three focused contexts: the convergence of the supernatural and the material, experiences of pain and the human condition of spiritual subjects. This understanding of materiality extends and raises questions concerning contemporary understandings of gender and its relationship with the corporeal devised by theorists such as Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz and Julia Kristeva.