“Encierro rosa”
“Romance Imprisonment”

Guatemala, 2000
Romance novels and iron cage
65 x 65 x 65 cm | 25.5” x 25.5” x 25.5”

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Site-specific installation at the “Casa de Té” of the Zoológico “La Aurora”, Guatemala. Some of the participating artists decided to use the “imprisonment” as our theme for the exhibition. I related this concept with women’s “chic-lit” as a means of fantasy and escape.

Next to the cage was the following excerpt from one of the novels of Corín Tellado (Spain), one of the most well known writers of the genre since the ’50s:

‘I don’t know what is happening,
but I’m sure there is something going on.
It’s strange, or maybe not.
It is true that I know nothing of men,
but I have read.’
—Corín Tellado