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16th BIENNALE OF
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mauricio Alejo, Magnolia de la Garza, Maya
Goded,Eniac Martínez & Mireya Escalante
Jury of the 16th Biennale of Photography -
Mexico City, July 4, 2014
María María Acha-Kutscher. De la serie Womankind/
Serie 3
Womankind
Womankind consists
of various series of digital photo-collages: some of the photographs used are
archival and were found on the Internet, in magazines or books, and other
photographs were taken by the artist herself.
The Womankind series are
set primarily in two essential moments in the history of women: the early
twentieth century's British suffragette movement, and the 1960s, which saw the
mass introduction of the birth-control pill. These events were crucial to
women's liberation, transforming their relationship with men.
Womankind resignifies
the images that have been used to construct a history of women since the advent
of photography. Women have traditionally been relegated to the background
within hegemonic, often patronizing narratives. Acha-Kutscher's collages
recover a female historical memory, which reflects her political struggle as
well as the complexity of her private world.
María María Acha-Kutscher
Lima,
Perú, 1968. Studied at the Facultad de Artes of the Pontificia Universidad
Católica of Peru. She has received various awards, including a Beca a la
Creación Contemporánea-Matadero (2012), honorable mention at the Premio
Iberoamericano Cortes de Cádiz (2012) and a Beca para la Promoción del Arte
Español Contemporáneo from the Ministerio de Cultura (2010). In 2013, she was
nominated Artista Revelación América Latina at the Premios RAC-Reconocimientos
Arte Contemporáneo (Spain), organized by the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC),
the Asociación de Coleccionistas 9915 and the Asociación de Mujeres en las
Artes Visuales (MAV). Her work forms part of the collection of the Instituto
Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert, the Museo de la Universidad de Alicante
and the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. She is
currently the codirector of a curatorial project entitled Antimuseo.
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