Ariadna
I came back from the cinema, it was my first projection on the giant screen the short film was called Hugs, that night I was a victim of sexual violence.
"Ariadna" is a delicate space to give light, share hugs and stories of people who have been victims of gender-based violence. This is an installation, performance and dialogue, which for seven years has traveled through spaces such as: a theater, in the woman prison, a high school, a clothing store, in the city government hall, at the museum of contemporary art SUBTE, and the same National Salon of Visual Arts of Urugay 2018. This work began with an investigation into self-portraits carried out in the Ex Frigorífico ANGLO in Fray Bentos where, after 15 years, I began to question myself, thanks to photography as a tool, about that sexual violence I was victim of sexual violence 15 years before and I never denunce. During the photo sessions in the slaughterhouse, alone in front of my camera, I understood that the way out of that labyrinth needed to be collaborative. Making a collective proposal, I felt it necessary to create this space of intimacy and care to talk about gender violence from the visual arts with a work in permanent construction, every time someone sits down and intervenes, the work changes, makes it more valuable. Because its wealth is in the collective intervention. The notebook as a record is an incunabulum of testimonies from victims of violence, where they recount their process until the perpetrator was assassinated, they denounce sexual abuse in childhood, or the violence experienced by their mothers. This notebook has to date the interventions collected in these four years of pilgrimage, where creators often anonymous and prey to their nightmares cry out to be made visible.
The installation is made up of a table with an embroidered tablecloth, a lamp from which threads hang, a handmade and open notebook to be intervened with pencils, oil paints, brushes, scraps of cloth and embroidery threads by those who want tell their own stories. Three self-portraits and a handkerchief stained with blood where I will embroider my complaint of sexual violence. This performance that accompanies her, sitting on one side of the installation, is a way of being able to enter into an intimate dialogue with whoever approaches, tell them my experience, inviting them to add their own complaints to the notebook and to bring out their fears.
