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With Joan Mitchell
- “Ribbons Weaving”
- Descripción
- “Forever Young”
- Descripción
- “Pin Loom Series”
- Descripción
- “Por siempre joven”
- Descripción
- “Hair Weaving”
- Descripción
- “Hair Weaving”
- Descripción
- “Feminicidio en Guatemala”
- Descripción
- “Wave Hill's Books of Leaves Lace”
- Descripción
- “Wave Hill's Books of Leaves”
- Descripción
- “Pressure Prints”
- Descripción
- “ARTchivo”
- Descripción
- “Deshilando el miedo”
- Descripción
- “Historias íntimas”
- Descripción
- “Souvenirs from Governors Island”
- Descripción
- “Souvenirs from Governors Island”
- Descripción
- “Bittersweet”
- Descripción
- “Hoy he roto tus cartas”
- Descripción
- “Drawing of Man/Drawing of Woman”
- Descripción
- “Historias íntimas”
- Descripción
- “Recuerdo de nuestra boda”
- Descripción
- “120 Minutos de silencio”
- Descripción
- “Días especiales”
- Descripción
- “Preoccupation (Gray Hair)”
- Descripción
- “Dibujo de hombre/Dibujo de mujer”
- Descripción
- “Untitled (Rinse)”
- Descripción
- “In Memoriam”
- Descripción
- Serie “A flor de piel”
- Descripción
- Serie “Flores silvestres”
- “Wildflowers” Series
- “Abuela, madre, hija”
- “Grandmother, Mother, Daughter”
- “Retorno a la pubertad”
- “Return to Puberty”
- “Para verte mejor”
- “The Better to See You With”
- “Ái Spik Ínglish”
- Descripción
- “Para que nos recuerdes mejor”
- “To Remember Us Better”
- “Valentía y coraje”
- “Courage and Bravery”
- “Para besarte mejor”
- “The Better to Kiss You With”
- “Para acariciarte mejor”
- “The Better to Caress You With”
- “Bésame mucho”
- “Kiss Me Plenty”
- “Reddest Red”
- “Escudos”
- “Shields”
- Serie “Instalación en museos de arte”
- “Installation at Art Museums” Series
- “Encierro rosa”
- “Romance Imprisonment”
- “Título de propiedad”
- “Ownership Title”
- “La sombra”
- “The Shadow”
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
New York, 2007
Single-channel digital video
22 minutes
2 minutes (short version created for FemLink, the International Video-Collage, for their 2008 theme of Preoccupation)
B/N, Silent
Video-performance
The preoccupation with growing old and her obsession with gray hairs leads a woman to pluck out her gray hair.
RELATED ARTWORKS:
Hoy he roto tus cartas (Today I tore up your letters)
Serie “Por siempre joven” (“Forever Young” Series)
Abuela, madre, hija (Grandmother, Mother, Daughter)
Untitled (Rinse)RELATED PRESS:
Barreto, Meyken and Verónica Sedano. “My Body, My Battlefield.” Online, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), October 2021.
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Mon Corps, Mon Champ de Bataille /
My Body, My Battlefield,
Online, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)
October 20–31, 2021
Curated by Meyken Barreto and Verónica Sedano
Curatorial Text
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
2 minutes
Courtesy of María Adela Díaz
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Equinox Contemporary Women’s Exhibition,
Art City Gallery, Ventura, CA
March 20–April 25, 2021
Curated by María Adela Díaz
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
2 minutes
Courtesy of Highlanes Gallery and Eugene Langan
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Bristle: Hair and Hegemony,
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
July 8–September 23, 2017
Curated by Roisin Kennedy, Niamh McGuinne, and Aoife Ruane
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
22 minutes
Courtesy of Rebecca Baillie and Charlotte Lindsay
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Braided Together: Hair in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists,
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK
January 15—February 11, 2012
February 18—March 18, 2012
Curated by Rebecca Baillie and Charlotte Lindsay
Preoccupation (Gray Hair)
Video-performance
2 minutes
