Judith Vizcarra – The pride of absence
From March 13 to May 11, 2008 /
With “The pride of absence”, the photographer from Mollet, Judith Vizcarra, showed the transformation of the woman’s external body imposed by the circumstances of an illness, cancer, and an intervention, a mastectomy. This change also produces an intimate mutilation that only the woman can understand and grasp.
This exhibition discovers how beauty and eroticism have more to do with life than with the canon of beauty imposed by tradition and the treatment of femininity. He manages to show the beauty of the bodies in which the traces of his experience can be seen, specifically of the disease overcome.
Drinking from the references introduced by Frida Kahlo, and at the same time reinterpreted by Jo Spence and Hanna Wilke, artists who captured in their work the own physical deterioration resulting from the disease, Vizcarra reflects the feelings of other artists in these processes and shows that they go beyond the image to offer a look to their soul and journey through those hard times.
