[Alle links i dette indlæg er på engelsk, medmindre andet er angivet]
María María Acha-Kutscher, født i Peru i 1968, har en tredobbelt rolle som aktivist, feminist og visuel kunstner. Hendes aktive online tilstedeværelse på hjemmeside [es/en] tillader netbrugere at nyde og dele hendes arbejde. Endvidere er alle hendes billeder tilgængelige under en Creative Commons licens, hvilket også giver os mulighed for at dele hendes arbejde i dette indlæg.
I Acha-Kutschers biografi står der:
In her work there are two fundamental axes: a feminist proposal and the openness of creative process to society. She generates projects on women[‘s] historical memory and raise[s] problems or situations related with the fact of being born [a] woman according to the political or cultural context. Her work plays a dual role: being an artistic product and also an instrument that covers a social need and also contributes to political transformations.
I denne video (med engelske undertekster) præsenterer Acha-Kutscher sin serie ‘Les Spectaculaires‘ fra Womankind projektet, “en vidtspændende produktion af digitale fotografiske collager”:
María María takes her grandparents’ surnames Acha-Kutscher as her stage name. Born in Lima (Peru) where she studied at the Faculty of Arts of the Pontifical Catholic University. In 1991, left Peru fascinated by Mexico, where lived her grandfather – the renowned art critic Juan Acha – living there for 10 years. She worked as a graphic designer and publicist. Until 2000 when she created her own studio associated with her mother, the documentary filmmaker Maria Rodriguez.
Xaviera fortsætter:
At twelve years old María María was emerging as a causes defender but the idea of being an activist artist was still vague ”I said ‘I wanna be a feminist artist’ when I arrived in Spain. When you are so far from your country, it helps you to see things that do not have seen from your own land and so, it emerges emotions and interests that you were not aware. I think all women have had at least a bad personal experience of womanhood. Women are the population group most marginalized over the history of humanity and this encourages fighting, contributing and joining with other women to create consciences to give our girls a better future”.
Xavieras indlæg fremhæver også nogle af Acha-Kutschers seneste projekter, såsom Women Working for Women [es/en]. Acha-Kutschers hjemmeside forklarer:
Women Working for Women is a project for public spaces that recovers the women's historic memory through portraits of female personalities who have forged change and fought to improve the situation for their gender. The project also includes visual registers based on press images of the female memory in public protests. Each image is the result of an investigation in various archives that tells us a story of struggle that has brought important changes to the way we perceive gender and, consequently, to the history of humankind. The elaboration of each portrait are made digitally and printed in large format tarp that refers to the language of political and commercial messages that abound in Latin American cities.
Følgende portrætter fra serien ‘Visual Bios‘ er en del af Women Working for Women-projektet:
I en lignende serie kaldet ‘Behind Him‘, præsenterer Acha-Kutscher “Otte visuelle biografier af heterosexuelle kunstnerpar”, hvor hun lægger vægt på kvindernes liv og arbejde:
Acha-Kutscher dedikerer også en serie til de kvinder, der deltager i ‘Outraged’ (Indignados) protesterne i Spanien. Hun forklarer:
It consists of a visual memory of women in public protests in Spain in 2012-2013. The results are drawing[s] based on press photographs and other[s] taken by witness[es] of these events.
Den består af en visuel erindring af kvinder i offentlig protest i Spanien i 2012-2013. Resultatet er tegninger baseret på pressefotografier og andre, taget af vidner til disse begivenheder.
Du kan følge ‘Indignadas’-serierne på Facebook. Besøg Acha-Kutschers hjemmeside for at se flere af hendes projekter og udgivelser.