Beth Moyses

Beth Moyses approaches the issue of violence against women, fundamentally domestic abuse, from a subtle and poetic perspective, through the wedding dress as a metaphor for both happiness, love, elegance and beauty, and the beginning of a process. of commitment, dedication, sacrifice and, in many cases, violence suffered by the women themselves in their homes. Almost all of her artistic works are executed with the same material, wedding dresses.

Photography, performance, sculpture and installation are the tools that Beth Moysés uses to denounce the violence and helplessness of many women in the world. Committed to feminist activism, she has carried out creative works with a strong social impact, such as the series of portraits of brides she created at a collective wedding of women prisoners in a prison in São Paulo.

Sprout senses

Beth Moysés pays tribute to artists from different generations, in celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

This still is based on the video where female figures appear walking with their faces facing the audience, positioning themselves next to each other. Once, they turn around, revealing the faces of women who, through the power of their art, helped transform society: Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic, Sophie Calle, Mona Hatoum, Regina Jose Galindo, Priscilla Monge, Guerrila Girls and Beth Moysés herself, among several others. Moyses seems to tell us that the road to reaching a society in which there is space for the feminine was long, and that the road continues. The applause of the artists at the end of the animation is a lesson in women supporting other women

BIO

Beth Moyses (Brasil, 1960).

She graduated in Fine Arts from the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (São Paulo) in 1983 and received her doctorate in 2004 from the State University of Campinas (São Paulo).

Her artistic career began in the 90s and is based on an authorial poetics that underlines the artist's active commitment to the historical, social, cultural and scientific moment that surrounds her. The surrounding culture not only determines their experience and vision of the world but also becomes the basis of the inner alchemy in which their work is forged. As an artist, she perceives the concatenation of moments that mark the course of the years, giving thickness and meaning to her biographical journey. The images and content stored since childhood become the fuel of his visual poetics.

Her artistic concerns focused early on the real situation of women, whose emotional relationships, especially those that develop in contexts of violence, become the center of her plastic research. All of her production, whether in photographic, video, object, installation, performance, drawing, etc., is aimed at denouncing these situations and problems.

Her artistic activity is developed more outside the country. She was one of the pioneers in performing with groups of women dressed as brides, on November 25, “International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.” She is always invited to perform in various places around the world: São Paulo, Madrid, Brasilia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Seville, Montevideo, Cáceres, Zaragoza, Murcia, Shanghai, Salamanca, Dublin, Bogotá, Montevideo, São Paulo, San Carlos, Piriápoles, Sugar Loaf, Aiguá, Maldonado, Cartagena de Indias, Panama, Jaén, Belo Horizonte, Porto, João Pessoa, Córdoba, Madrid, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Lisbon.

She has works in important collections in Brazil and several other countries. Below we have some: Banco do Brasil Cultural Center Collection – São Paulo, Brazil; Cultural Center of Spain Collection – Montevideo, Uruguay; MAB (Museu de Arte Brasileira) FAAP – Brazil; Collection Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía - Madrid, Spain; Comunidade de Madrid Collection – Spain; Vostell Malpartida Museum in Cáceres- Spain; Museum of Fine Arts - Santander, Spain; Valencian Institute of Modern Art – IVAM – Valencia, Spain; Modern and contemporary art at Trinity College Dublin - Dublin, Ireland; ArtNexus Collection – Bogota – Colombia; Shoes Or No Shoes Museum - Kruishoutem; among others.