WOMAN GO NO'GREE

Empires,by their very nature,embody and institutionalize difference,both between metropolis and colony and between colonial subjects.The imperial imaginary floods popular culture.Gender categories were one kind of bio-logic "new tradition" that European colonialism institutionalized in Yoruba as well as other African cultures.There is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yoruba society was not gendered in its original form : before colonization social practices(such as division of labor,kinship,profession and monarchical structures)where not ordered according to gender difference but according to the lineage.Rethinking gender as a Western construction.We need to look at imperialism,colonization and other global and local forms of stratification, which lead to the conclusion that gender cannot be separated from the social context and other systems of hierarchy.Thus, the three central concepts that have been the pillars of feminism, women, gender and sisterhood, are only understood with a careful attention to the nuclear family from which they have emerged. Feminist concepts arise from the logic of the patriarchal nuclear family,which is a familiar form that is far from universal.Can we assume that social relations in all societies are organized around biological sexual difference? Is the male body in African societies seen as normative and therefore a channel for the exercise of power?One consequence of Eurocentrism is the racialization of knowledge:Europe is represented as the source of knowledge and Europeans,therefore,as thinkers.In addition,male privilege as an essential part of the European ethos is implicit in the culture of modernity.What if modernity models brings us to a new vision of "the other"?. Gender is, above all, a sociocultural construction. Maybe understanding History we will be able to overcome the social and symbolic ascription only by the difference of sex and open the range to other factors for the construction of identity.I explore the intersections of gender, history, knowledge-making,....Rethink new ways of observing.Stereotypes,clichés.

© Gloria Oyarzabal - UPSIDEDOWN BLUE Manipulated archive image
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UPSIDEDOWN BLUE Manipulated archive image

© Gloria Oyarzabal - WHITE HAND. Manipulated archive image
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WHITE HAND. Manipulated archive image

© Gloria Oyarzabal - WOMEN POWER
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WOMEN POWER

© Gloria Oyarzabal - YELLOW GODDESS Manipulated archive image
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YELLOW GODDESS Manipulated archive image

© Gloria Oyarzabal - PINK CHILDHOOD Manipulated archive image
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PINK CHILDHOOD Manipulated archive image

© Gloria Oyarzabal - Image from the WOMAN GO NO'GREE photography project
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STRIPES (ON EXOTIZATION, VICTIMIZATION, HYPERSEXUALIZATION AND OTHER –ZATIONS) Studio photo. Printed on fabric and hung as a curtain.

© Gloria Oyarzabal - GREEN LADY (FELA) Found Image
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GREEN LADY (FELA) Found Image

© Gloria Oyarzabal - POSSESSION
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POSSESSION

© Gloria Oyarzabal - COLONIZATION OF THE MIND (EURCENTRISM)
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COLONIZATION OF THE MIND (EURCENTRISM)

© Gloria Oyarzabal - COLONIZATION OF THE MIND (BEAUTY CANON)
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COLONIZATION OF THE MIND (BEAUTY CANON)

© Gloria Oyarzabal - Image from the WOMAN GO NO'GREE photography project
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wild (ON EXOTIZATION, VICTIMIZATION, HYPERSEXUALIZATION AND OTHER –ZATIONS) Studio photo. Printed on fabric and hung as a curtain.

© Gloria Oyarzabal - UPSIDEDOWN BLUE/RED Manipulated archive image
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UPSIDEDOWN BLUE/RED Manipulated archive image

© Gloria Oyarzabal - FOU MEN
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FOU MEN

© Gloria Oyarzabal - STANDING UP
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STANDING UP

© Gloria Oyarzabal - Image from the WOMAN GO NO'GREE photography project
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PINK MONOTEISM (ON EXOTIZATION, VICTIMIZATION, HYPERSEXUALIZATION AND OTHER –ZATIONS) Studio photo. Printed on fabric and hung as a curtain.

© Gloria Oyarzabal - RED QUEEN/KING THRONE
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RED QUEEN/KING THRONE

© Gloria Oyarzabal - RED HAND (POWER?)
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RED HAND (POWER?)

© Gloria Oyarzabal - MOTHERHOOD
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MOTHERHOOD

© Gloria Oyarzabal - BLUE BUBBLE/WHITE PRIVILEGE. Archive found photo
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BLUE BUBBLE/WHITE PRIVILEGE. Archive found photo

© Gloria Oyarzabal - SORORITY
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SORORITY

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