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.
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