WOMANKIND
Women and the Care Economy
Womankind is a project by feminist visual artist, María María Acha and consist in a wide range of digital photographic collages, created since 2009, from archival images, Internet, magazines, books and photographs taken by the artist. They are acclimated especially in two of the most important events in the history of women, the British suffrage movement of the early twentieth century and the massive introduction of the birth control pill in the 60s, which contribute significantly to the emancipation of women transforming their relationship with men.
Womankind resignifies images that reflected the history of women and the hegemonic narratives that are paternalistic, are relegated to the background. Recovering feminine historical memory and their political struggle and reflecting the complexity of their private world.
Womankind resignifies images that reflected the history of women and the hegemonic narratives that are paternalistic, are relegated to the background. Recovering feminine historical memory and their political struggle and reflecting the complexity of their private world.
I submit a serie of 3 digital photographic collages, where we see reflected the “care economy“, Much of this work is done in households and communities by women for little or no compensation. And that includes care for babies, children, the sick and the elderly and all those activities that keep society stable, orderly and cohesive. That means an enormous contribution to the global economy.
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