Carne de mi carne: Piel

video. color. sound.

12'46''

2021

The project PIEL (Skin), which forms part of the Carne de mi carne [Flesh of My Flesh] series, is a documentary in which the artist mixes realism and speculation with fiction to challenge roles and attitudes towards gender and the use of power, tradition and contemporaneity, conservatism and progressivism, rural and urban, manual labour and digital labour, masculine and feminine. The project does not only show us a personal history but a history that portrays contemporary society, exposing the consequences of a globalised world in the rural environment. All of this is approached from a gender perspective and always with humour, revealing the shield that emerges directly from a part of the body, the skin, to resist the external hegemonic system imposed by a heteropatriarchal society. As the artist says, “It’s not easy being a woman, being born in a small town and identifying as a feminist. Not yet. It’s not easy. It’s not pleasant. It’s not what you expect."


The project is a form-based research on ‘Steak dysmorphia’ (Touraille, 2008), a theory of evolution that claims that men size is bigger because under gender hierarchical regimes found in all cultures and all times, men are allocated the best food.

Bling-bling flashy flesh glowing in the dark of the cave.

Two hairy neolithic creatures fighting for a pink piece of meat.

The loser is starving.
Hunger forces you to think.

Carne de mi carne: Piel

PVC red courtain 

450x225 cms

2021

Carne de mi carne: Piel

video frame

12'46''

2021

Carne de mi carne: Piel

video frame

12'46''

2021

soo fat 

sculpted foam seat covered with silicon, coloured pink,

hand cut by the artist with a special ham knife.

70x70x65 cms

2021

soo fat 

sculpted foam seat covered with silicon, coloured red,

hand cut by the artist with a special ham knife.

95x70x80 cms

2021