Teresa Correa. Mirror wound with scissors
- For:
- General public
- Time:
18.00 (approximate duration: 1 hour)
- Place:
- Permanent collection rooms
- Price:
Free entry until all places filled
Mirror wound with Scissors aims to question the Western aesthetic and ethical canon in museums in the context of a museum dominated by art that reinforces this canon. Based on the work Woman in the Mirror by Paul Delvaux (1936), the artist engages in a dialogue with her own experience through her mastectomized bust for the inclusion of dissident bodies. She is interested in Delvaux's painting not only for its symbolism, but also to make visible those pieces hidden in the museum's storerooms.
The performance involves the participation of women and female colleagues belonging to the IN association who, together with the artist, will show their dissident bodies to politically appropriate the space and redefine the canon, incorporating other bodies and diverse ethics.
19 October, World Breast Cancer Day.