Installation
7 ceramic pieces + bones + branches + golden thread
Variable dimensions
2023

“The patriarchy does to our bodies
what extractivist and capitalist economies do
to our territories.”
—XIII Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting, Peru, 2014*

Ceramic pieces of bodies in the process of transformation. Women’s bodies made of clay. Bodies that intertwine and engage in dialogue with branches and bones. Tied bodies. Bodies that pass through the fire of burning.
I propose delving into the concept of body-territory, as suggested by Lorena Cabnal**, who states, “…the notion of the body-territory allows us to connect different types of violence—patriarchal, colonial, and extractivist. At the same time, the defense of bodies and territories opens the collective space of healing, in the pursuit of breaking the colonial and patriarchal paradigm.”
I draw upon Rita Segato*** regarding the existence of an “archaic war,” often described in myths, where “the woman and her body-territory end up being taken, subdued, and expropriated of their sovereignty.”
*Institutional text from the XIII Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting, held in Peru in 2014.
**Lorena Cabnal is a Guatemalan activist, co-founder of the community-territorial feminist movement in Guatemala, and of the Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism.
***Rita Segato is a writer, thinker, anthropologist, and feminist activist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A great scholar of macho violence and femicides, she gained recognition as an international reference voice on these topics and as an indispensable feminist thinker of our era.