Book review: Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti
Author: Marina Vinnik This book explores art and life, work, and art of Sophia Giovannitti, whose website features a list of works is available: https://www.sophiagiovannitti.work/work In the book Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, the author dives deep into what we call love, art, or work in...
Carmine-colored shoes: intervening in public spaces against gender violence
Author: Cecilia Itzel Noriega Vega Red Shoes is an artwork made by the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet. The first installation was created in Ciudad Juárez in 2009 and consisted of placing 33 pairs of red-painted shoes on Avenida Juárez in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, a place where many disappearances...
Curating Exhibitions During the Pandemic*
During 2020, in the pressing context of the pandemic and global isolation, I was Chief Curator of the 12th Mercosur biennial, which has been organized since 1997 by the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Entitled Feminine(s). Visualities, Actions, Affects, the biennial was going to open on April 16, 2020....
