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Breaking Boundaries - Brazilian Women Artists Under the Dictatorship
Breaking Boundaries - Brazilian Women Artists Under the Dictatorship
72 minutes
ANALIVIA CORDEIRO
M 3X3, 1973
Video, b/wh, sound, 9 min.
Considered the first Brazilian work of video art. Cordeiro questions the relationship between man and technology while the computer acts as relay between the artist and the audience.
ANNA BELLA GEIGER
Passagens 1 (Passages 1), 1974
Video, b/wh, silent, 9 min.
A pioneering performative video showing the artist trudging up steps in a repetitive way. This not only alludes to women’s repetitive daily motions, but also alludes to body, space, and territory.
Declaração em Retrato 1 (Statement in Portrait 1), 1974
Video, b/wh, sound, 16 min.
ABG refers to the isolation of the Brazilian artist, excluded from the international art scene.
Declaração em Retrato 2 (Statement in Portrait 2), 1975
Video, b/wh, sound, 12 min.
ABG analyzes the artistic process in Brazilian art praxis. These works were considered as messages to the public, thereby recurring to English for wider repercussions.
Local da ação (Place of Action), 1978
Video, b/wh, sound, 1 min. 20
In lieu of ‘action’ Brazil is shown here as a kind of void; a bleak and black empty space.
LETICIA PARENTE
Marca Registrada (Trademark), 1975
Video, b/wh, sound, 10 min. 34
One of the most disturbing but iconic videos of this period, Parente sews “Made in Brazil” on the sole of her foot with black thread, thus turning her body into a ‘thing’ at a time of the military regime.
In, 1975
Video, b/wh, sound, 1 min. 18
The artist climbs into a closet and hangs her blouse… with herself in it. The strange contortions provoke thoughts of torture and violence.
Tarefa 1 (Chore1), 1982
Video, color, silent, 1 min. 56
The artist lies on an ironing board in her clothes, facedown, as a maid irons her. Alludes to class prejudice and racial issues with pungent irony.
Preparação 1, 1975
Video, b/wh, sound, 3 min. 26
The simple act of putting makeup and preparing to go out in Parente’s ironic way turns into a scathing critique of a patriarchal society which objectifies women.
ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO
In-Out (Anthropophagy), 1973
Video (s8), color, sound, 8 min. 14
Men and women’s mouths are seen as objects go in and out through their lips. An artist’s way of portraying, among other things, the military gag placed on them by censorship.