Installation
Ceramic pieces + tree branches + handmade embossed and intervened paper
200 x 160 cm

I explore other ways of screaming, of denouncing the pain historically endured by feminized bodies and halting systematic abuse. As Maristella Svampa writes, “…it is women who, above all, lead the resistance to deforestation, who place their bodies in front of bulldozers and denounce the contamination caused by agrochemicals. They are also the ones who have strengthened the commitment to a peasant-indigenous, social, and solidarity-based economy.”*

On a wall, I build this installation with ceramic pieces, tree branches of different types and shapes, plant elements, and embossed paper. In those torn pieces of paper with grooves of branches like veins, I intervene with parts of the myth told by Ovid in Metamorphoses.

Written in tiny letters that make reading difficult, they invite the viewer to come closer. At times, the text transforms into drawings. In the proximity needed for reading, the different aromas of the natural objects come through.

Suffocated screams, fragmented screams, screams in bodies, screams in the forest. Screams as denunciation, screams as healing.

*Maristella Svampa, Ecofeminismos territoriales en América Latina