Feminicide and the Pedagogy of Violence: An Essay on Exile, Coloniality and Nature in Third Feminism

BIDASECA KARINA

Challenges of Life Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology.

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2015; p. 224 - 234

I am interested in observing it through the concept of 'exile' of the women of the world, inspired by the artistic works of a woman forced into exile, Cuban artist Ana Mendieta. Con-fusing her body with nature, she managed to have an impact on the essentialism/anti-essentialism debate within the feminist movement, which took place in the 1970s and later in eco-feminism. I now seek to insert it into the paradigm of the coloniality of power (Quijano, 2000).The work of Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948), a sculptor, painter and video artist who lived in the United States ? and died tragically upon being thrown off the balcony of a building after a quarrel with her partner on September 8, 1985 ? expresses this predatory and at the same time physical and spiritual relationship with the Earth. The skewed reading of her own death, in anticipation of her series ?Silueta?[i], (1973-1980), where she represented female silhouettes in nature ? in mud, sand and grass ? with natural materials such as leaves and branches including blood, pressing them on the body or painting her silhouette in the sea, or on the lawn. Through these interventions, Ana Mendieta was creating a new artistic genre, which she called ?earth- body? sculptures.