The collective exhibition creatures salvajes integrates painting, drawing and sculpture of nine young plastic artists between 27 and 34 years of age who reflect “the convulsed, introspective reality of contemporary femininity.”
Opened since yesterday at the independent gallery Artspace México, it is an exhibition that denies social impositions such as domestic work, beauty as a stereotype and feminine decorum to immerse itself in strange, dark and fantastic inner universes from which they are denounced the daily violence that is experienced reveals intimate secrets and reclaims the body as a first space for creation and recognition, explained the curator Liz Misterio.
Wild Creatures exhibits the work of Alejandra Contreras Sieck, Carolina Bailón, Carolina Berrocal, Delilirium Candidum, Elisa Malo, Frida Ríos Abarca, Ingrid Cota, Isabel Rivera Torres and Iurhi Peña, who created their work in the midst of the health contingency.
According to Liz Misterio, the collected work turned out to coincide in that introspective, intimate and dark aspect of femininity. Each one, separately and from their own space, coincided in exploring the convulsed and introspective reality of contemporary femininity.
At present, the curator continued, within the feminist movement there are different ways of manifesting itself. “The exhibition invites other women to reflect on their own experiences, think about the world that we would like to inhabit from the female gender and what other realities we would like to see materialize, as well as reflect on how we can build a more just and equitable society , in which women can develop their potential, free from violence ”.
In the sample you will find, for example, the work of one of the plastic artists, who uses animal figures as allegory to talk about the wildest aspects of women; in contrast to the canon of feminine decorum, where “good girls” are educated not to have emotional outbursts in public. “It is like a reply to that duty of women,” said the curator.
Another work is a series of wax figures of Venus de Milo, “as an installation the piece implies melting that archetype of beauty”.
From the fantastic, another artist presents “a series of drawings of women with an aesthetic similar to bodybuilders as a way of claiming that corporality, which is cataloged by many as unattractive, but which here is found in a kind of fantastic Eden of strong women ”.
Made up of more than 30 works, creatures salvajes You can visit from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Artspace México (Campeche 281, Condesa neighborhood).
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