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Tese de mestrado em Pintura, Variante Curricular I, apresentada à Universidade de Lisboa através da Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2006This thesis is submitted to option I (theoretical / practical) from the Master in Fine Arts. In this thesis, we try to acknowledge the relation between body and self, and the way this relation determines the definition of individuals. Body and self were, for certain times of the occidental history, realities seen as apart, such duality being expressed in the couples "body – soul" and "body – mind"; according to this logics, the body was the entity subordinated to the soul – mind. Modem times have re¬evaluated and regained the concept of "body" and have classified individuals through patterns like gender, race and class. In Post-Modem times, these definitions seem to have faded and, in this context, media have played a fundamental role, by spreading life-stiles that, at present, determine the inclusion of individuals in given elites. In this sense, we try to elaborate about the possibility for the post-modem body to, indeed, make the bridge between "body" and "self', departing from the modelling of a body that might answer to the expectations of the individual and that might, as well, appear as a way to effectively tear Modem categories apart. The work of plastic artists – and the reflection around the plastic work produced – stands as a leit moth, for discussion theme