For my self-portrait performance, I choose to talk about domestic abused as it's not a topic a lot of people decided to talk. Millions of women go through any type of abused such as verbal/emotional, mental/psychological, physical and between others. Women sometimes will not see the damage their partner had/are doing to them, abused is not love, and men feel empowered of saying “I own her”, “she is my property”, and then abused them physically or emotionally.
Sometimes it’s hard to see those signs and help them because they are so afraid of leaving their husbands due the emotionally trauma was created. Frida Khalo and Ana Mendieta, two amazing artists, in the case of Frida Khalo, her relationship with Diego Rivera. He cheated on her countless times and she forgives him because “he loved her” on the other hand Ana Mendieta was pushed out through the window causing her death. The night prior her death neighbors heard the couple arguing violently. Maybe her own husband was the cause of her death, maybe over jealousy? But we will never know, the truth.
Men sees women as an object for their needs such as cooking, cleaning, maintain the house, but not as a strong woman capable of doing things better than them or same. For example, A good movie ‘Why Did I Get Married?’, four couple assists to a trip once year to remember why they got married. One of the couples is going through problems, the husband doesn’t want anything to do with his wife due the overweight and he shames her “she is the reason we can work out” and he constantly cheats on her with other woman whose friends of her. On the second movie “Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?” she leaves him, and he tries to get her back but it’s too late. Throughout the movie she faces him and makes him remember what she went through, the physical and emotional abused she received from him.
Ways of seeing by John Berger. Chapter 4 and 5
"This analogy between possessing and the way of seeing which is incorporated in oil painting, is a factor usually ignored by art experts and historians. Significantly enough it is an anthropologist who has come closest to recognizing it." ( pg 83)
"A painting could speak to the soul"(pg 87)
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