Gallery 3
Etcétera. Argentina
m.a.m. - mujeres artistas en movimiento. Uruguay
Mujeres Creando. Bolivia
Erika y López. Paraguay
Costuras Urbanas. Argentina
Gente armada [People Armed], 2004 - 2014, installation, series of twenty MDF figures with intervened photographs, dimensions variable
Eleven photographs, 85 x 18 each, plastic tape, posters, newspaper articles, documents and “errorist fetishes,” dimensions variable
OPERACIÓN B.A.N.G. [OPERATION B.A.N.G.] Errorist disembarkation at the Summit of the Americas, Mar del Plata, 2005. Photograph, 400 x 590 cm
Error errorista [Errorist Error], 2005, video, 5’
Cartografía errorista [Errorist Cartography], 2009, video, 4’50’’
200 años de error [200 Years of Error], 2009, video, 6’17’’
La epopeya de la soja genocida [The Epopee of the Soy Genocide], 2013, video, 13’08’’
In 1997, Etcétera was formed by artists active in the fields of theater, the visual arts, poetry, and music. Its highly ironic and comic theatrical group actions geared to denouncement and signaling question the status quo. With paper weapons, they stage invasions, occupations, and unexpected actions in the urban space. Documentary materials on their actions include cardboard outlines of figures conversing with the public and photographs.
www.grupoetcetera.wordpress.com
m.a.m. - mujeres artistas en movimiento. Uruguay
Violencia doméstica [Domestic Violence], 2003, photograph, 80 x 106 cm
Despenalización del Aborto [Legalize Abortion], 2003, photograph, 80 x 106 cm
Derechos Laborales de la mujer [Women’s Labor Rights], 2003, photograph, 80 x 106 cm
Ataduras [Fetters], 2007-08, photograph, 80 x 106 cm
Tejido umbilical [Umbilical Tissue], 2008, photograph, 80 x 106 cm
El camino invisible [The Invisible Road], 2009, photograph, 80 x 106 cm
Stairway: Despenalización del Aborto [Legalize Abortion], 2003, photograph, 245 x 400 cm.
The Uruguayan artists’ collective m.a.m. was formed in 2002. Its interventions and performances that deal with gender issues like domestic violence, abortion, and women’s labor rights, as well as the connection between women and art, always take place in busy public spaces. The exhibition features a selection of photographs of its actions in plazas and other central locations in Montevideo and other cities in Latin America.
http://grupomam.blogspot.com.ar/
El eterno kamasutra histórico del patriarcado [The Eternal Historical Kamasutra of the Patriarchy], 2014
Graffiti and illustration in epoxy paint, dimensions variable
“We are mad, agitators, rebels; we are disobedient, subversive bitches; we are streetwise graffiti artist; we are anarchists and feminists. We are lesbians and heterosexuals, married and single, students and office workers. We are Indians, chotas and cholas, birlochas and young ladies. We are old and young, fair and dark. We are a network of solidarities, of identities, of commitments. We are women Mujeres Creando.” This is how the Bolivian feminist and anarchist group founded in 1992 defines itself. The collective designs actions and interventions in the street that oppose the social injustice and sexism prevalent in Bolivian society. For this exhibition, the artists created a site-specific intervention.
http://www.mujerescreando.org/
Colonización [Colonization], one-channel video, 1’51’
Cultura Apatukada [Apatukada Culture], 2007, one-channel video, 3’
Haciendo Mercado [Making Market], 2007, one-channel video, 3’20´
For the past ten years, the artist duo Erika and Javier have created work at the margins of the Asunción art scene. Their production in the media of photography and video questions mass media discourses. Their participation in this show consists of the audiovisual register of three of their actions that use language to problematize identity and ongoing colonialism.
Voto ilustrado [Enlightened Vote], photographs, 50 x 70 cm each.
Stairway: Privatizado [Privatized], 1997, photograph, 245 x 400 cm, in stairway
The Córdoba-based collective Costuras Urbanas was active from 1997 to 2000. Its interventions were geared to raising citizens’ awareness, demanding rights, and the use of the public space. The works featured in this exhibition are photographic registers of the actions Privatizado and Voto ilustrado, both of which took place on the streets of Córdoba.