Aurora Pellizzi

MARCO museum presents Gorgona, by Aurora Pellizzi, a project inside Espacio Uno showroom.

Intervention designed and produced by the artist especially for MARCO where she combines painting and sculpture with artisanal techniques to represent a contemporary version of the mythological figure of the gorgons.

Her intervention consists of a work of 3.45 by 3.58 meters formed by nine ayates joined together, a prehispanic clothing piece made with hand-spun maguey fiber and backstrap loom.

For her work, the artist takes the gorgons as her starting point, mythological figures that had snakes instead of hair, with the power to petrify with their gaze.

With Gorgona, the artist questions how powerful female figures have been associated with danger throughout history, with monstrous and bestial attributes. These representations of wild and untamable figures are found in different cultures, such as the fertility goddess Coatlicue in Aztec, Kali Durga, the goddess of death in Hindu culture, or the biblical character Eve.

"By representing the female body in an active and procreative state and not in a passive, submissive and objective state, it is perceived as destructive and threatening and acquires little visibility within the hegemonic culture," analyzes the artist.

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Photo by Ramiro Chaves