19.00 Zine Lecture No. 2: Zines and Embodiment with Melissa Schlecht
20.00 Podium: About “what a Beauty” with Irasema Fernández, moderation by Alisha Soraya
We grew up with the idea that guilt takes the form of our flesh. I saw how guilt multiplied around me, manifesting itself as bread and food.
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If the body is a boundary with non-transferable limits from human to human, why is it so difficult to stop comparing ourselves?
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If the body is a boundary with non-transferable limits from human to human, why is it so difficult to stop comparing ourselves?
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We are walking contradictions. Sometimes we love beauty and sometimes we hate it. Sometimes, we wish we could move in a gray space where beauty does not matter. *
No battle against the mandates of beauty can be won, however, I ask myself if there is anything to do but fight. I also wonder what I could do so that the people I love, and anyone who reads this zine (including me), can reconcile their body image at a necessary moment. *
These texts were written in a way to encourage individual adaptations by each reader based on their own experiences such that each person can put their own discomforts about having a body into words.
IrasemaFernández is a writer, visual artist and activist. She studied Hispanic Literature and Languages at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work explores narratives about the female body in its political, colonial and cultural contexts. She has been awarded fellowships in Novel Writing (2021) and Short Story Writing (2018) from the Mexican National Foundation for Culture and the Arts. In 2020, she was invited to the Hay Festival Querétaro to deliver a Masterclass on how urban art and public protest has been the key to effective community building and cross-cultural dialogue. She is currently a resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude in ‘Societal’ for writing and visual arts.
what a Beauty – Outdoor Exhibition
Exhibition Opening: Outdoor Exhibition
17.00 Collaborative Creation of the Exhibition
19.00 Zine Lecture No. 2: Zines and Embodiment with Melissa Schlecht
20.00 Podium: About “what a Beauty” with Irasema Fernández, moderation by Alisha Soraya
We grew up with the idea that guilt takes the form of our flesh. I saw how guilt multiplied around me, manifesting itself as bread and food.
*
If the body is a boundary with non-transferable limits from human to human, why is it so difficult to stop comparing ourselves?
*
If the body is a boundary with non-transferable limits from human to human, why is it so difficult to stop comparing ourselves?
*
We are walking contradictions. Sometimes we love beauty and sometimes we hate it. Sometimes, we wish we could move in a gray space where beauty does not matter.
*
No battle against the mandates of beauty can be won, however, I ask myself if there is anything to do but fight. I also wonder what I could do so that the people I love, and anyone who reads this zine (including me), can reconcile their body image at a necessary moment.
*
These texts were written in a way to encourage individual adaptations by each reader based on their own experiences such that each person can put their own discomforts about having a body into words.
Irasema Fernández is a writer, visual artist and activist. She studied Hispanic Literature and Languages at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work explores narratives about the female body in its political, colonial and cultural contexts. She has been awarded fellowships in Novel Writing (2021) and Short Story Writing (2018) from the Mexican National Foundation for Culture and the Arts. In 2020, she was invited to the Hay Festival Querétaro to deliver a Masterclass on how urban art and public protest has been the key to effective community building and cross-cultural dialogue. She is currently a resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude in ‘Societal’ for writing and visual arts.