FUNDACIÓN PROA OFFERS VIRTUAL CLASSES THAT EXPLORE THE WORK OF IMPORTANT FEMALE ARTISTS
Faced with the challenge posed by the global scenario, the Proa Foundation in Buenos Aires makes new digital resources available to the public and extends the dates and quotas of its virtual class schedule.
It is a program of free distance classes designed to get to know in depth the work of artists who participate in the Create Worlds exhibition (opening date to be confirmed), which brings together more than 60 national and international female artists to account for the value and contribution of these creators in the history of recent art.
CLASS SCHEDULE
MONA HATOUM + SHIRIN NESHAT
Friday, May 8 at 5pm; Tuesday, May 12 at 3 pm; Friday, May 15 at 5:00 p.m.
Approximate duration: 1 hour
The London-based Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, who presented her works at Proa in 2015, is a contemporary reference for the idea of nomadism and the fight for women in territories with segregationist cultures. In this class, her work will be in dialogue with the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, who works on the condition of women in Islamic societies.
This Master Class approaches a culturally distant world through videos, texts and images of her works. This cultural distance possibly reveals the points of union and rapprochement with our Latin American cultures.
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LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Tuesday, May 12 at 5pm; Friday, May 15 at 3:00 p.m.
Approximate duration: 1 hour
The class recovers the artist's creative universe in relation to the exhibition “The Return to the Repressed” held at Proa in 2011. The experience brings together videos and tours of the exhibition, with a strong focus on visual material, in addition to bibliography and writings by the artist that introduce Bourgeois' feminine and psychological world.
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LILIANA MARESCA - ANA MENDIETA: THE BODY IN DISPUTE
Wednesday, May 6 and 13 at 3 pm; Thursday, May 14 at 3:00 p.m.
Approximate duration: 1 hour
In this class, a series of work guidelines common to the work of Liliana Maresca (Buenos Aires, 1951-1994) and Ana Mendieta (1948 Havana - 1985 NY) will be addressed. It will start from contextual issues typical of the 80s onwards: minority subjectivation and the dispute of identities in the first person, based on the struggles for civil rights crossed by multiculturalism, migrant flows or gender identities and sexual issues, where the body occupies a fundamental place. It will include the study of photo-performance as an aesthetic strategy in the production of both artists, for the questioning and transgression of patriarchal mandates towards the body of women. Their use of the body as text and as a space for experimentation, exhibition and visualization of these problems will also be studied in its production.
WOMEN IN PLOTS: THREE ARGENTINE ARTISTS
Wednesday, May 13 at 5pm; Thursday, May 14 at 5:00 p.m.
In this class, the subject of the textile arts will be studied from the production of three outstanding Argentine artists who will be present at the exhibition: Delia Cancela, Marina De Caro and Mónica Millán. The implications of the recovery of this practice by the feminist creators of the 70s, both locally and internationally, and its impact on the contemporary will be observed. It will reflect on the creative potential and the multiple symbolic references of the textile arts in their technical, material and objective dimension.
