Blessed
beatas (the blessed) is a sublimation of the feminine thing in the daily life: a tribute to the domestic woman, to the housewife.
beatas explores the feminine condition based on the age-old-deep-rooted-concepts-of-social-imaginary, considering the different meanings of the term “blessed” and starting off, in the formal thing, from our traditional ‘estampitas’ (small religious cards). Externally, in tasks commonly assigned to women; and internally, deepening in some of the most characteristic features of the feminine essence.
Within this framework I discover myself playing like a girl with woman’s eyes. And I move freely. And thence, I piece together, I sew, I embroider, in an unflagging attempt to transform: either to emphasize that apparently obvious thing or to re-encounter the purest beauty in those erroneously darkened places and then, from my subjectivity, to manage to blur that first prima idea.
This is the result.
Mariana Méndez / October, 2007