My body is mine

Tatiana Parcero : My Body is Mine
Individual Exhibition. Contemporary photography

The work that Tatiana Parcero presents in this exhibition is the result of a continuous process of activism in relation to themes that have been central for feminism since the 1970s, and which in the last decade, with the transformation of feminism into a mass movement in Latin America, have become inescapable.
Among them we can mention: the right of women to control their own bodies, the right of women to express their experiences and to be heard and believed, the right of nature to develop without threats of destruction and extractivism, the right to protest collectively without receiving aggressions, and the right to live, a priority that has become relegated, as evidenced by the growing index of femicides.

Since the 1990s Parcero has used her own body and its gesturality, in private acts of performance, as a basis for superimposing maps, codices, diagrams and other patriarchal conceptual structures, in order to express the struggle within us between the internal and the external; between subjective experience and the context that challenges, molds, and at times obscures or even invisibilizes it.

In recent years, the imprints of nature and even bones—that denote abandoned lives—have become incorporated into Parcero’s self-reflexive creative process, which insistently underlines that the personal is political. The palimpsests produced through these acts of constructed photography, in a sort of tattoo in which body and context become compenetrated, have taken on the expanded form of installations, that produce an immersive sensation.
In the series “Never again with fear”, feminist marches—in which our bodies form a part of a collectivity that demands recognition, change, and respect—become this enveloping structure that protects us, in which we are part of a mass that recognizes our value and our rights as individuals, and as human beings integrated into our natural and social environment. It celebrates this new feminist context that proclaims: “Neither women nor the earth are territories for conquest”.

Karen Cordero Reiman
ALMANAQUE fotográfica, Agosto 2023

Tatiana Parcero. (Mexico City, 1967) Lives and works in Buenos Aires. Visual artist and photographer with a Master of Arts (NYU & icp-NYC, she has a degree in Psychology (UNAM), Mexico City. Her work explores memory, time, the body and its connections with identity and the natural world, sometimes juxtaposing the human figure with archival images.

Since the 90's, her work has been exhibited in biennials, individual and group exhibitions around the world, among which stand out: Solo Exhibitions in Buenos Aires (2022); Chicago, USA (2017), 7th International Triennial of Photography, Backlight Festival, Tampere Finland (2005); Cartographies, Terre d'Images Festival, Biarritz, France (2004); VI Havana Biennial, Cuba (1997). Group Exhibitions: Our Selves, Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum, MoMA, New York, USA; Cosmologies, Rencontres de la photographie de Arles, We are one and we are many, Galería Abierta de las Rejas de Chapultepec, 1st section of the Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City; Pacific Standard Time, initiative of the Getty Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) Tokyo, Japan & & Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) Spain (2014), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011); Changing the Focus, Latin American Photography 1990-2005, The Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain (2003).

She obtained the FONCA Creation Grant, (2019); National System of Art Creators, FONCA (2011-2014). Her work is found in collections around the world including MoMA, New York and has been published in various media, contemporary art catalogs and books such as: Our Selves (MoMA).