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This multidisciplinary installation by artist Luciana Corres is a profoundly liberated reflection, free from any discrediting prejudice regarding the significance of events in a woman's life that patriarchal archetypes have stripped of value, reducing them to mere nuisances, inconveniences, and scatological burdens solely attributed to women. By liberating the feminine from all social constructs, Luciana Corres takes us on a linear and chronological journey to rethink these biological processes that a woman experiences throughout her life: menstruation, reproduction, fertility, infertility, childbirth, nurturing, and menopause. She reimagines them as moments of joy, pleasure, magnificence, and courage.

Employing aesthetic and formal resources reminiscent of European "Cabinets of Curiosities" from the 16th and 17th centuries, Corres purifies her intimate cabinet of moments/processes and guides us on a journey free from any patriarchal vision. The ultimate destination is a space of dignification, liberation, and acceptance of the importance of the corporeal feminine as the foundation for new forms of life and understanding.

Ximena Alarcón
February 2022