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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”
Encierro rosa
Romance Imprisonment
Guatemala, 2000
Installation of romance novels and iron cage
25.5” x 25.5” x 25.5” | 65 x 65 x 65 cms
Site-specific installation at Casa de Té del Zoológico La Aurora (La Aurora’s Zoo’s Tea House) in Guatemala City. Some of the participating artists decided to use the “imprisonment” as our theme for the exhibition. I related this concept with women’s “chic-lit” as a means of fantasy and escape.
Next to the cage was the following excerpt from one of the novels of Corín Tellado (Spain), one of the most well known writers of the genre since the ’50s:
‘I don’t know what is happening,
but I’m sure there is something going on.
It’s strange, or maybe not.
It is true that I know nothing of men,
but I have read.’
—Corín Tellado
RELATED ARTWORKS:
Recuerdo de nuestra boda (Memories of Our Wedding)
Bittersweet
Título de propiedad (Ownership Title)
La sombra (The Shadow)RELATED PRESS:
Quiñones Otal, Emilia. “¿Cómo enfrentar la violencia en un territorio que vive de ello?” in the thesis “Transversalidad entre Violencia Patriarcal y Violencia Colonial: en las Artes Visuales de México, América Central y el Caribe Español.” Universitat de Valencia, 2014, pp 377-385
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
Par-en-tesis
Casa de Té, Zoológico La Aurora, Guatemala
January 16–23, 2000
Curated by Grupo PAI (Proyecto de Arte Independiente)
Encierro rosa (Romance Imprisonment)
Installation of romance novels and iron cage