Third Award. Sculpture. Sívori Museum

The conceptual core of my work is Memory in relation to the gaze as a form of domination. Blinders obscure the gaze of those who use them; and what can’t be seen is impossible to remember. By making the blinders transparent, I reverse their function by transforming them into a veil that has been drawn and allows us to contemplate the images of the horror of an oppressive society. The circulating blood refers to life itself and the possibility of reversing, through a re-appropriation of Memory, that what has happened will not happen again. Joy, Death and Pain mediated by the blood of absent, faceless women in a dystopian society.

What was very inspiring for my Blinders series is the concept derived from Atwood’ s Handmaid’ s Tale: an authoritarian society which subdues women. I choose the wings that women used when they entered the public sphere to blind their eyes so as not to be seen and not to be able to contemplate the images of violence to talk about contemporary forms of domination.

Third Award. Sculpture. Sívori Museum
Resin, pvc tubes, pumps, electronics, Arduino, artificial blood, sound.
Visual and sound installation.
Dimensions 80” x 40” x 40”
2019.