From all the photos the photo
Las promesas (2020), from Paola Vega
Keywords:
images, women artists, collective identity, contemporary artAbstract
The visual exclusion of women from the art scene is a factor of gender asymmetry. Because her portraits remain hidden in institutional guards and during the digitization processes that catapult them towards sociability, removing them from obscurity, showing them and, above all, bringing them together, constitutes Las promesas (2020), by the historian and plastic artist Paola Vega, an act of justice and an expansion towards the future in the form of a community. The collection of photographs of Argentine women artists, obtained from archives or accessed by relatives, and their arrangement in a path of temporal discontinuity, make this book, seemingly small and humble due to its artisanal workmanship, a contemporary work of art. After the few introductory words of the author, reading and watching become complementary actions guided by the articulation of a scenario where the image of a collective identity is formulated.
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