I am Eve, the wife of noble Adam; it was I who violated Jesus in the past; it was I who robbed my children of heaven; it is I by right who should have been crucified. I had heaven at my command; evil the bad choice that shamed me; evil the punishment for my crime that has aged me; alas, my hand is not pure. It was I who plucked the apple; it went past the narrow of my gullet; as long as they live in daylight women will not cease from folly on account of that. There would be no ice in any place; there would be no bright windy winter; there would be no hell, there would be no grief, there would be no terror but for me. -Anonymous, Old Irish
In this piece, the myth of the genesis of the world and Eve’s guilt in the fall of man are questioned in their power as foundations of a misogynistic culture and idiosyncrasy, and consequently, of the discrimination, hatred, and violence that women have been subjected to—as well as the resulting indifference, impunity, and victim-blaming that portray women as responsible for the harm they endure. Imagined places where the myth was born, (The garden of Eden) and where its most extreme misogynistic expression—femicide— (an abandoned field) take place, along with one of it’s destructive interpretations, take the shape of a a three-channel video installation that uses the contemplative subtlety of living photography, accompanied by a voice-off reading of an ancient Irish lament, pointing back to the Western origins of the myth, its representations, and its inevitable consequences in the Christian and predominantly Western world.
CAST AND CREW
Models Jamie Andrea Arevalo Cecilia Poveda Voices Paloma Cavrois Maria Jose Camacho Cinematographer, Edition Andres Ardila Marin Sound Editor Akira Shoji