This thesis develops a characterization of the ethnographic turn in art. It is distributed in two chapters of two sections to unwrap the discussion from the anthropological and aesthetic level of that turn. The first chapter presents what is artistic in the ethnographic turn, based on the exploration of the challenges of being an emerging and mid-career artist. The first section examines the tensions between the contextual and critical disposition of ethnography and the determinations derived from thinking of the artist's activity as creativity. In addition, it considers the existing intersections between the individualistic dimension of the traditional figure of the modern artist and the cooperative dimension existing in the work of the contemporary artist. The second section focuses on the reflexive dimension of the exercise of the artist as ethnographer and on the complications resulting from defining the artwork as an object of consumption. That, considering the possible interactions between the artist, the artwork and the spectator and how those establish a sense of ethnography that includes what is characteristic of the artist's creative process. For the second chapter, two notions of experience are explored to analyze the aesthetic dimension of the ethnographic turn from the practices carried out by the artists. The first section focuses on dialoguing with the experience from which the artist is understood from the viewpoint of the spectators and from himself; from the relationship between his personal trajectory and the quality he represents as an artist. All of it to discuss the committed dimension present in the ethnographic turn and its implications when locating it exclusively in the relationship with an ethnic and/or cultural other. In the second section, the emphasis is placed on the experience that both artists and spectators can have with art. To this end, the discussion on what kind of relationship is established with the creative process resulting in the artwork and its affective implications was addressed.
