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Bodies as Territories
La Nueva Fábrica, Santa Ana (2023)
Topics
Gender perspective
Human rights
Gender violence
Allies
La Nueva FábricaBodies as Territories
An altar, a living space, a tribute to our bodies: this installation is a collective reclamation of the right to inhabit our bodies with dignity, freedom, and autonomy. As a result of the Bordando Futuros y Autonomías workshop, which took place over a year at La Nueva Fábrica, artist and director of Mi Calle, Nuestra Calle, Sophia Arrazola, developed a training process on women's rights and community curation alongside a group of women from the community. Through drawing and embroidering self-portraits, the participants critically explored the meanings that society has imposed on their bodies, identifying memories, secrets, and stories inscribed in their bodily territories. The artwork offers a symbolic reading of these narratives, creating a space for visualization, healing, and transformation, where new possibilities are planted for imagining and building more equitable futures from personal and collective autonomy.
Methods: Vision Cycles , Future Scenarios , anticipatory anthropology
Pedagogies: Popular education, gender training, participatory futures, participatory art, narrative practices, community curation, poetic ethnography
Medium: Art intervention, altar, textile installation
Changes: Safe space, violence observatory, recognition of stories, community curation
Credits: Sophia Arrazola, La Nueva Fábrica, and the community of women
