(a)parecer (a)parecer

With this action, the artist invites us to question the concept of "privada" which can be translated as "private" and "deprived." The artist plays with the word as a notion with multiple meanings for a feminized and colonized person. Throughout the performance, Teresa Hernández's body shows a metamorphosis, while she reflects on the painful process led by an event that changed her life. The private place implies a structure invented by the colonizers, in order to achieve allies by putting women in the space of the dominated and the colonized men in that of the dominator. Hernández breaks with the polarization created as a result of the invasion of America, by presenting her private transformation to an audience that gathers in a public square, enunciating from a space in which the patriarchal-colonial guidelines should not allow. Finally, the artist "tries" to climb a statue of Christopher Columbus in a defiant act, not only for her safety as an individual, but also for the colonial-patriarchal status.

With this action, the artist invites us to question the concept of "privada" which can be translated as "private" and "deprived." The artist plays with the word as a notion with multiple meanings for a feminized and colonized person. Throughout the performance, Teresa Hernández's body shows a metamorphosis, while she reflects on the painful process led by an event that changed her life. The private place implies a structure invented by the colonizers, in order to achieve allies by putting women in the space of the dominated and the colonized men in that of the dominator. Hernández breaks with the polarization created as a result of the invasion of America, by presenting her private transformation to an audience that gathers in a public square, enunciating from a space in which the patriarchal-colonial guidelines should not allow. Finally, the artist "tries" to climb a statue of Christopher Columbus in a defiant act, not only for her safety as an individual, but also for the colonial-patriarchal status.