Natalia Iguiñiz – “Dejo este cuerpo aquí”

Reception: November 7th 2020

_VIGILGONZALES Sacred Valley | Jr. Grau 654 & The public space

Curated by Eliana Otta.

"Dejo este cuerpo aquí”is an intervention in the public space and an exhibition that has three parts. The first part is an archive of photographs is an archive of photographs, taken from the internet, that portray various uses of cardboard to protest, ask for help or take shelter.The second is an installation with pieces of cardboard that were placed in various streets of the city of Lima; the cartons were collected and recycled from family consumption or from warehouses and streets, then they were silk-screened with three parts of the were then silkscreened with three parts of a woman's body and accompanied by phrases taken from Audre Lorde's The Cancer Diaries of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Diaries. Finally, the third are photographs that record some of the life of the body fragments in the streets.

The work is based on precariousness, hopelessness, lack of options, tiredness, helplessness, exhaustion, impotence, the exhaustion of all resources or when all that remains is to leave evidence that we are resisting. The kind of "last hope” sabotages itself by placing the messages in areas that are difficult to access and read. The material is perishable and the texts are not clear.

In the cities, cardboards are within everyone's reach, they are part of our daily packaging. They carry, bring and they are garbage, like our bodies when we get sick, when we get poor, when we are discarded, violated, sterilized, mutilated, burned, and yet the cartons are there to shelter us and carry our most desperate messages and our most desperate rage.our most desperate messages and our rage.

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