María María Acha-Kutscher Peru / Spain, b. 1968
La Rabbia di Proserpina. Giuditta di Cristofano Allori, 2022
Digital print on Hahnemühle paper Photo Rag Baryta of 315 gr. Mounted on 10 mm KapaFix. Black wooden frame.
37 x 30 cm.
Edition 3 of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
€ 1,200.00
La Rabbia di Proserpina is a photographic polyptych composed by 12 images with female faces taken from Renaissance and Baroque paintings, which represents episodes from the Bible and Greco-Roman mythology,...
La Rabbia di Proserpina is a photographic polyptych composed by 12 images with female faces taken from Renaissance and Baroque paintings, which represents episodes from the Bible and Greco-Roman mythology, where women are depict during violent acts, suffering or executing them. The piece responds to two visions of gender: on the one hand, the denunciation of the violence normalization against women within the history of art and, on the other hand, the rage as a motor of change in feminist imaginary. Faces of terror, fear and fury intermingles in this polyptych to turn it into a piece of lament and rage.