Pilar Albarracín, “She-wolf” (2006): a vaguely shamanic-looking performance reminiscent of Joseph Beuy’s I Like America and America Likes Me, in which she shares picnic with a wolf in a gallery setting. The Spanish artist has explored various feminist themes that raise questions of domestication and the domestic codification of life. Her most recent works recreate portraits in the manner of Frida Kahlo. This exhibition at the Galería Filomena Soares was shown alongside her installations involving kitchenware. I’m reminded of the American artist Kiki Smith’s eccentric explorations of womanhood through folklore, and pagan witchcraft, especially her depictions of wolves, wolf/women hybrids and bestiality, archetypal associations of womankind with wild untamed nature. With mankind’s desire to dominate nature, woman’s confinement to the kitchen space appears analogous to the taming of a wild beast, only Albarracín translates the confinement of the kitchen space into the confinement of the gallery space.
I literally reek of garlic rn the recipe called for two cloves garlic but since i was doing 16oz of pasta instead of 12 i did chopped five cloves not realizing that it wasn’t going to get cooked and that the garlic would synthesize w the lemon and capers and red pepper flakes to make Extreme Garlic anyways that was 3 hours and every surface of my body internal and external smells of garlic which is nice i think it might be a cleanse of some sort
A short comic about robot siblings who were born in the space between human and machine, but in response to a world where being human (or at least passing as human) is a privilege, they chose different futures for themselves.
