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Member Since: 8/11/2007
Band Website: isasanz.com
Band Members: isa sanz ::::
::::: I am an artist working with Photography and Video. I explore issues of identity and roles of gender. THIS SPACE IS AN OPEN PLACE where you can share: adding commens, photos, draws, poems, thoughts, etc... connections with this idea. FEEL FREE TO PARTICIPATE::::: I would like to say thanks to all my friends and people who encouraged me to continue with this project, and mainly to make it public. Andrés, Rober, Veera, Violaya, ,Lola, etc... Also to my girlfriends who posed as models for this project: Ana, Merce, Ali, Rebeca, Raheli, etc...::::: The music that you can hear here is made by THE ARCANE PARADIGM . If you work with music, sound, noise, etc... and feel inspired by this idea and want to upload here some creation, please contact me and send me your piece.© PHOTOS AND TEXT BY ISA SANZ
Influences: CURRENT MOON lunar phase:Love, Spirituality, Music, Art, Feminism, Judi Chicago, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic, Pocha Nostra, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagic, Dreams, Performance Art, Hannah Wilke, Miranda Gray, Casilda Rodrigáñez Bustos, Mary Douglas, Osho, Tao, Yoga,Tantra, Dikshas, Tarot, Meditation, Alternative Therapies, Universe, YOU, Earth, all, nothing... and many more...
Sounds Like: This series is named “When a woman bleeds is an act of loveâ€, it is a photographic work performed in front of a camera, where the blood is the nexus between the individual and the collective experience. The blood in menstruation, usually seen as a taboo, is shown as a sing of beauty and poetry. According to Simon Beauvoir said on her book “The Second Sexâ€, during menstruation blood represents the essence of femininity.
Talking to different people, realized that the way they see these series depends on the viewer and his/her social baggage, and so, meanwhile some people found this project extremely beautiful, others have to confront themselves with their ideas of beauty and horror, concerning the act of bleeding during the menstruation.In “Untitled 1†photography the model is not looking to the camera and it represents just the moment, a moment in which the intimated act is shared with the audience in a frontal pose. The view of blood becomes a secondary reading while the strength the poetry and the fragility of the moment is taking part.At first sight the taboo and shock are exposed, explicitly performed for the viewer. We can observe in all the photos that the models are in front of the camera, posing in an advertising or fashion language. However I intended to go deeper constructing new meanings, rather than to show only the surface implicit in the image of blood and the reaction of the viewer exposed to the violation of the taboo. In few words, I intended to explore ideas of emotion and transformation.In “Untitled 2†the girl is posing opposite to the camera but the message which she is writing frontally in the white wall is the punctum, the word amor which means love in Spanish, and it reveals my intentions in this series and my relation with the blood during menstruation, seeing my own blood as a part of a female nature. I try to represent a transformation by using the image of the girl on the photo as an element in which is the blood that flows out from her transforms all the negative established ideas about menstruation, showing what had to be hidden. So building a semantic message for the viewer, that is a positive message that can be read from different angles. In an immunized world invaded by pornographic images of pain, destruction and suffering, I think that these kind of positive ideas have more impact on the viewer than an image of destruction. In the times we are living, a positive message can be more subversive than a negative one.We can perceive that all the photos are connected by the blood, and aesthetically speaking there is a visual progression, from only one woman, then two, three and then a group of females in the series. This goes from the individual experience to the act of sharing the same experience between a group of women:†my blood, your blood our bloodâ€, making a connection with this Luce Irigaray’s idea that a woman needs first to explore her link with her own gender to find her way of express herself(I could'n upload all the photos of the series due to censure problems here in myspace)
If you wish you can visit my web page: ISA SANZ
Many artists have worked with elements and body fluids, as Aktionist Artist did, but only a few artists have shown or represented menstrual blood. I reclaim as a sign of identity what society and religions have made a big taboo: MENSTRUAL BLOOD.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None