ABOUT MY WORK

There is a relationship between my work and my personal life defined by my condition as a woman inserted in our society. As an artist, this struggle can be expressed through the visual arts.
With my first photographic series Auto-Photos, Transformations and A Woman's Diary, 1975-1977, I was determined to put in writing the motivations behind this work. 
At the time my awareness was focused on the woman's role in our society. I sought to emphasize the constant and everyday conditioning imposed by our male oriented culture, which included the commonly used stereotypes magnified by the traditional media, used to define the beauty and sensuality of the female form.

Only when I began to work in the dark room while developing the photos, did I discover the speed and relative simplicity in which I could subvert many of the clichés relating to the woman's image. At that time, I started working on a selection of snapshots of my own face and body, adopting different personas and expressions; not as an object but as a subject. I manipulated the paper in such a way that certain areas became distorted and blurred. I was in a trance-like state mesmerized by these tragicomic, exasperated images.