Bestiario

Photographic project made of self-portraits, in which, I build masks representing contemporary beasts based on words commonly used to denigrate women in whom the offensive word refers to a real or fantasy animal name, such as dog or slut, bitch, viper, dead fly, harpy, etc. The masks are made of skins, viscera and entrails of animals such as chicken, pig, fish, cow; which are used for food consumption. Materia that is subsequently sewn, embroidered or stapled and then photographed using my body as a support. I am interested in questioning that particular association that exists in Latin American language and culture where women and animals are associated as debasing. I work with post mortem raw material, animal remains that imply a serialised carnivorous consumption, detached from animal care: creatures deprived of affection and/or stripped from their natural conditions.

In the creation of Bestiary project no living animal were harmed or mistreated, using exclusively residous and organic remains sold at butchers for edible purposes or others that are usually not eaten and get thrown away. This is my way of constructing offerings and honoring these discarded animal corpus.