“[…] one is forced to live in a world where genders constitute univocal signifiers, where gender is stabilized, polarized, differentiated, and intractable.”

(Butler, 1998: 310)

Adriana Mejía, Alejandra España, Ariela Kader, Daniela Terroba, Paola Estrella, Tabata Bandin, Vanessa Freitag y Yohanna Roa.

Social structure, family, femininity, and virility are binary concepts derived from gender roles, orchestrated by regulatory fictions that produce the peculiar phenomenon of natural sex, a phenomenon in which the politicized, sexualized, and objectified body becomes the material that constructs societies and impedes performative freedom.

What would happen if we were to do away with the oppression that gender has represented as a semiotic representation? What if we were to build a new system in which individuals are not affected by the subjective imposition of social roles assigned through the anatomical classification of bodies?

Woven Resiliences is a collective exhibition, a place of resistance, a space to reflect on how we represent ourselves and what factors influence this process of identification (images, religion, education, ethnicity, social class, etc.), to identify the rhetoric with which we think and construct the body today; an invitation to deconstruct and reinvent ourselves; to become free from all imposition, shedding any bias of essentialism. A call to collective action to build a space that allows for the free interplay of dramatic cultural expression, empowering the capacities for action and the materiality of the body, far from any social norm. Each of the pieces that make up the exhibition are a look at the processes that the artists have gone through to identify and question the multiplicity of sociocultural factors that have as their ultimate goal the identity of the subject, in a structure governed by the sexual body that operates under a binary and universalist logic, using sexual difference as an operative cultural distinction, which results in a set of social relations and hierarchies, economic dynamics and cultural constructions focused on preserving the existing social order, reflecting on how these identity archetypes have been created to satisfy the needs of society, in different contexts and historical moments.

Kinary Chargoy