ARTIST STATEMENT

Most of the discarded clothes I use in this series were women’s clothes. With the folds and volumes I try to bring to mind the absent bodies of those women as well as the topography of those stretches of land that have managed to survive the urban concrete invasion. It’s a commentary on the parallelisms between the patriarchal conception of the female body and of nature; how this vision contributes to the violence and degradation of which they are victims. Nature, and the body, seen as something that is used, something that is exploited as a resource to obtain profit and whose value is determined by its ability to serve.

La mayor parte de la ropa desechada que uso en esta serie era ropa de mujer. Con los pliegues y volúmenes intento recordar los cuerpos ausentes de aquellas mujeres así como la topografía de aquellas extensiones de terreno que han logrado sobrevivir a la invasión urbana del hormigón. Es un comentario sobre los paralelismos entre la concepción patriarcal del cuerpo femenino y de la naturaleza; cómo esta visión contribuye a la violencia y degradación de la que son víctimas. La naturaleza, y el cuerpo, visto como algo que se utiliza, algo que se explota como recurso para obtener beneficios y cuyo valor está determinado por su capacidad de servir.