REALITY/FICTION OF FEMINISM – MUSEO EVITA REOPENS WITH AN EXHIBITION OF FÁTIMA PECCI CAROU
Under the title of "Flags and pennants: Evita", Fátima presents her first institutional exhibition in Buenos Aires. Curated by Eva Grinstein, the exhibition refers to the imagery of demostrations, feminism, Peronism and the artist's otaku passion.
The selection consists of sixteen paintings -oil and acrylic on canvas- presented in formats that combine various affinities of the artist: flags that symbolize the spirit of the public demonstrations, the banners of the murgas and the banners of the mobilizations in which Fatima regularly participates as part of her feminist and Peronist commitment; pennants supported by thin rods, an inexpensive and popular means of image reproduction that is part of the merchandising of party events, the sports world, and souvenir shops. And, as Fátima discovers in the heat of her passion, her otaku (that's what they call in the West the fanaticism for manga and anime) also used in Japan under the name of kakemono.
"The paintings represent Costumbrist scenes around the figure of Eva Perón and her relationship with the women of her time" postulates the curator. “But although they are based on a deep survey of historical and biographical facts, the artist applies a sieve of fiction and fantasy to them, evident both in her nods to Japanese animation and in the alteration of temporal events and the invention of characters and settings. Thus arises a real/ imagined Evita, re-created from current feminist struggles, nurtured by her own legend and at the same time permeable to a new look that plays lovingly with her legacy."
Fátima Pecci Carou (b.1984, Buenos Aires) studied Visual Arts at IUNA and UMSA and Art History at UBA. She attended work clinics with Ana Gallardo, Javier Villa and Carla Barbero, and was a fellow of the Center for Artistic Research (2015).
In 2019 she participates in BIENALSUR (Córdoba and Rosario headquarters) and in 2020 she is invited to participate in the 12th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre with the curatorship of Andrea Giunta with her work “Femicides”. In 2017 she won the first prize in painting at the Salón Vicentin (Santa Fe) and in 2018 she received the Prize in Work in Barrio Joven (arteBA, with PIEDRAS) presenting her solo show by her Kunoichi.
She has presented the individual exhibitions: "The others in the folds of history" (PIEDRAS, Buenos Aires, 2019), "Kanzashi or ornaments in the hair" (Cultural Space Museum of Women, Córdoba, 2018), "The real thing in the fantasy ”(San Martín Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, 2017), “Kosupure Cosplay” (Selvanegra Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2017) and “Someday I will leave this place” (Spanish Cultural Center in Rosario, 2016). In addition, she participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (2019), Centro Cultural Recoleta (2017), Fundación ICBC (2017), Centro Cultural Kirchner (2019 and 2017), UV Estudios (2017) and La Verdi (2016), among others
She is part of the Assembly of Art Workers Nosotras Proponemos and participates in different political groups. As a musician she is part of the Otras Formas label, visual artists who make music, and she recently released her new single "Ficción o Realidad". Her work unfolds in the form of paintings, drawings, objects, fanzines and music. Her interests run through the history of art and political and feminist activism.
