Rouge
(2021)


Rouge appears as an action of resistance to patriarchy and the oppression of the body and the feminine feeling, specifically influenced by the work of feminist Latin American artists of the 60’s-80’s. It consists of performances carried out by different women between the ages of 25 and 35, inside their homes.
For this work, the artist put out an open call on social networks. She choreographed and instructed the participants to walk in circles, while maintaining and sustaining the action for a long period of time, they wore high heels and their own clothing.
The circularity of the action requires a resistance work from each participant. This can also generate physical discomfort in the viewer's experience. What does sustained movement and turning in circles induce us to do? Although it is likely that this action lead us to metaphors related to femininity, the body, psychology and the lives of women, it is also interesting to think on the spectator questioning how we look / how we are looked at.
Rouge appears as an action of resistance to patriarchy and the oppression of the body and the feminine feeling, specifically influenced by the work of feminist Latin American artists of the 60’s-80’s. It consists of performances carried out by different women between the ages of 25 and 35, inside their homes.
For this work, the artist put out an open call on social networks. She choreographed and instructed the participants to walk in circles, while maintaining and sustaining the action for a long period of time, they wore high heels and their own clothing.
The circularity of the action requires a resistance work from each participant. This can also generate physical discomfort in the viewer's experience. What does sustained movement and turning in circles induce us to do? Although it is likely that this action lead us to metaphors related to femininity, the body, psychology and the lives of women, it is also interesting to think on the spectator questioning how we look / how we are looked at.
“…both works on display - the photography series Untitled, and the participatory video performance Rouge -, embrace a choreography of displacement which hints closer to a movement research than a material one. These works offer themselves as plastic pathways where the artist (re)frames concepts that have migrated with her from previous investigations on memory, territory and confinement.” - Paz Ponce Pérez-Bustamante
Untitled _ Sin título
(2020)








Untitled (2020). Fujifilm Instax Mini, makeup. 8,6 x 5,4 cm. each.
Untitled is a photographic series of 10 self-portraits of the artist, intervened with makeup. The format of Polaroid, due to their technique and size, allow us to get closer to a personal and intimate universe. To the artist, this series represents a process of reconciliation with her own body. Reflecting on self-criticism, the freedom of the body, the vindication of the senses and, the complexity of sexuality.
The photo series Untitled is part of the project Las Otras (The Others, Spanish, feminine, plural). Using the body of different women, reflects on the female experience and all its complexities.
Untitled is a photographic series of 10 self-portraits of the artist, intervened with makeup. The format of Polaroid, due to their technique and size, allow us to get closer to a personal and intimate universe. To the artist, this series represents a process of reconciliation with her own body. Reflecting on self-criticism, the freedom of the body, the vindication of the senses and, the complexity of sexuality.
La serie fotográfica Sin título forma parte del proyecto Las Otras que, utilizando el cuerpo de diferentes mujeres como escenario, reflexiona acerca de la experiencia femenina y todas sus complejidades.
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“Using what she had at hand, make-up, she began by concealing the fragments of herself until the images turned almost unrecognizable. This intuitive gesture of self erasure as self protection lies at the core of the somatic research on display now at the Las Otras exhibition, aiming at creating a re-signified body grammar through an expanded choreographic gesture engaging other bodies in order to form a dance of resistance.” - Paz Ponce Pérez-Bustamante