Pós-Freak

foto de Julio Garrido

quando algo começava a brotar performativamente do corpo

não era obra, era um eu que nascia entre um bigode a a purpurina

Marcha das Vadias 2012

god save the queer

still de Freak Orlando

filme de Ulrike Ottinger

Quando produzi o primeiro material desta investigação cheguei a esta palavra. Acho que me atraiu primeiro a sonoridade, a repetição do fonema si fazendo o ar passar por entre os dentes. Depois o sentido, que me remete à tragédia silenciosa que é a existência de qualquer corpo generificado por outrxs. É como uma dobra, uma abismo quase suave porque escondido. 

Ana Mendieta – Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants) (1972)

Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American artist, at age 12 she and her sister were sent to America to escape Fidel Castro’s regime, they were later reunited with their family 18 years after. Mendieta’s focused mainly on the themes of feminisim, violence, life, death,place and belonging. I think her difficult start to life during the regime gave her passion to make her art political and also autobiographical.

Her Facial Hair Transplants were some of her more earlier works. They focus on gender sterotypes and how people that don’t fit into these forms are ostracized for being different. Mendieta challenges how a women is perceived by changing her own appearance.

Although this does seem like a feministic piece, contrastingly it has only been able to happen due to a man. I think it’s interesting how she has included the man in the pictures to show it wouldn’t be possible without him. Maybe also she is commenting on life as a whole.