Winner of the Villa María Women’s Hall: “To speak is to run the risk of lying?” by Constanza Ruibal

“In this piece I recover and intervene in the first duster that my mother used when she began to exercise her teaching role,” he reveals. Constanza Ruibal about the work with which she has just won the Acquisition Prize of the Salón de las Mujeres, which was presented on Friday night at the Fernando Bonfiglioli Museum in Villa María (Sarmiento and San Martín).

The award-winning work, inscribed in a line of experimentation with the tradition of textile art, is titled: To speak is to run the risk of lying?.

“To speak is to run the risk of lying?” It is titled the work by Constanza Ruibal that won the Villa María Women’s Hall. (SDLMVM Press)

This is a duster mounted on a black background. Half of the garment has been worked on in a “deconstruction” process, which guides the work of the artist from Córdoba in a series that includes uniforms corresponding to different jobs, and in which she investigates the relationship between the body and clothing.

This edition of the “Marina Fernández de Lucchini” Women’s Salon also awarded a series of distinctions to a wide group of artists from different cities in the province of Córdoba. They are: Mariana Guagliano, for Until then, everything had been white; Guadalupe Deán Eguía, for I believe I live in the future; Jessica Agustina Gómez, for Entre; Victoria Liguori, for Lucy’s Scream; Mariana Ramírez (work S/T); Emilia Di Pascuale, for GEMELAS; Romina Castiñeira, for Comfort Zone; Aylén Perossi, for Registry: Metamorphosis; Paola Sferco, for Triptych; Ileana Gonella, for The Remains of the Day.

The jury was made up of Carina Cagnolo, Gabriela Manfredi and Sofía Sartori, who defined the award, the mentions and the admission to the salon of 61 artists who presented 72 works. This year there were a total of 141 shipments. The room includes painting, engraving, sculpture, drawing, object, photography, installation and video art.

The gender perspective was maintained this year with the objective of giving continuity to the idea of ​​increasing the heritage of the Bongiglioli Museum collection, particularly with works by women, seeking to vindicate the place of female creators in the field of visual arts.

Fabrics and senses

Constanza Ruibal, the winner of this edition, is a textile artist and teacher. Together with Soledad Simón, she coordinates the Collaborative Territory Extension Program at the Córdoba Provincial University. This year, both published the book Everything a Textile Can, testimony to a joint process that was published through the local label Vaca Muerta Ediciones.

It has its workshop in the community of artists that make up and run Hotel Inminente.

Regarding the award-winning work, the artist (whose alter ego is Desarmario) states: “On the path of my own practice in education, I find myself inheriting garments and meanings rooted in a contradictory system that I try to question with gestures linked to textile deconstruction.” . And she adds: “This anatomical dissection approached through clothing is also associated with forensic work where each organ of our body is decomposed and examined in a historical, cultural and emotional sense. You reach the skeleton and the questions begin: What sensitivities can a textile awaken? Where does it take us? What is he hiding? What does it reveal?”

That of Constanza Ruibal is an art made of material vestiges and spiritual reverberations. A world of fabrics that dressed bodies and that are questioned about what persists from those who used them. The garments tell their stories, and simultaneously keep a memory of the lives they covered.

The artist specifies in the statement of her submission to the salon: “To dismantle is to make rubble of what exists and not because of the rubble itself, but because of the path that passes through them. A hollowed body that also receives the affection of another. “This willingness to disarm ourselves in relation to others constitutes an opportunity to question body memory and look for other possible meanings of our jobs.”

2023-09-17 18:03:13
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