TEMPORARY GALLERY
The Political Body: Radical Women in Latin America 1960-1980
Fall 2013
Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta, The Political Body: Radical Women in Latin American Art, 1960-1980, investigates the work of artists who opened up languages, concepts and narratives in a period marked by experimentation and tension between dictatorships and post-dictatorships. They initiated new forms of expression in times when these languages involved danger. Their works shaped the perception of social and political violence. Their works emerge from the present with the strength of heroic actions. Poetic and politic, the works of this exhibition gather the experimentalism of the 60s, 70s and beginning of 80s; the relationships with political violence, the emergence of “feminine” themes, a gender narrative, a cultural construction of sexuality, feminist activism, and reconfigurations of the notion of space, both in its perception in the museum or in the production of the landscape, approached as a cultural construction of nature.
Image Credit: Lourdes Grobet (Mexico)
La Briosa, 1980
Photograph
Collection of the artist
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