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mutual dependencies (3) Martha Rosler

Series of 12 postcards. Playing digital original postcards. Courtesy of the artist.

has been a dream as a pioneer Rosler, active since the sixties and character of the encounter between art and feminism in the late seventies, has generously agreed to participate in this exhibition. For the honor which is his presence and it allows us to perform an exercise in genealogy recognition of female authorship artistic practices. Tijuana Maid part of the trilogy Service. A Trilogy on colonization. work formally comply with the parameters of what is known as Mail Art -a practice that dates back to the sixties and Fluxus environment and seeks to put his speech within the communication processes. Rosler gives this work the name of postal novel, which consists of a series of postcards written by a domestic worker.

in the cards, texts written in Castilian, first-person description and detail working conditions of a maid working Tijuana across the border in San Diego, long hours, low wages, abuses, etc.. [1] .

Before this work, Rosler had made A Budding Gourmet (1973), about a woman wanting to become a gourmet as part of its efforts to raise the position of his family, TowersMaid MC (1974), about a woman working in an establishment fast food in 1977 would make the fourth of these novels, postcards, A New-Found Career. Initially sent only to women, was about a woman who transitioned to unpaid work in the professional art world.

The use of postcards by Rosler points to his desire to overcome the limits of public art privileged elite and reach a wider audience. In their series of Christmas cards From Our House to your House (1974-1978) added images to text. These postcards were critical works in the career of Martha Rosler. Because its distribution and in the case of postal novels of the time factor was crucial, because it was real serial novels ( Tijuana Maid consists of twelve postcards) that opened the possibilities for communication and exchange between sender and recipient / as [2] .

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[1] The reference is Elo Vega, Migration, gender boundaries and artistic practices Contemporary: Performing the border and work of Ursula Biemann . Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Castilla - La Mancha. 2009. Unpublished dissertation.

[2] Martha Rosler, Positions in the real world . Barcelona, \u200b\u200bMACBA, 1999, p. 96-97.

Martha Rosler, and Territory Tijuana Maid Domestic, slavery is over!

Photo: Pepe and Paula Domínguez Gonzalo.

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