Chica Banquete

Banda Municipal presents ¿Qué le diría mi estómago a mi lengua? by Chica Banquete.

Chica Banquete (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991) presents her most recent body of work, a series of pieces that explore the representation of the female body through the lens of psychic listening, the memory that emerges from physical pain, and the celebration of fear, disgust, and the exhaustion of being a body. Chica Banquete’s work is characterized by a blend of psychoanalysis, literature, theater, and gastronomy, which—through humor—dismantles essentialist notions of the female body and represents it from a grotesque, disgusting, dismembered, and at the same time, therapeutic sensibility. The digestive system is key to entering her work; it is from this space that subjectivity is articulated and where the fatigue caused by endless social norms linked to ideas of success, productivity, and behavior—always shaped by the market—is processed. Text and self-portrait become an intimate biography which, undoubtedly, intertwined with her closeness to the publishing world, becomes a fiction where, in the end, we are all Chica Banquete. And so, irony and sarcasm also become a place to celebrate ourselves. Tables, tablecloths, kitchen rags, cakes, pizzas, boobs, tears, vaginas are part of Chica Banquete’s artistic universe. ¿Qué le diría mi estómago a mi lengua? reveals how the intimate diary and the domestic space remain a battleground for those artists who, through their work, seek the emancipation of the body.

–Aleida Pardo