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Title: 
AMA preludio. Maia Villot
Programme: 
Babestu. Contemporary creation support
Date: 
2022
Place: 
Lantegia 2, BAT espazioa, floor 2
Artist(s): 
Villot de Diego, Maia (1977- )
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Performance
Tags: 
Art - Research
Women´s Studies
Summary: 

AMA preludio continues with the research Maia Villot has been working on in recent years regarding the patriarchical representations of powerful women.
This subject was already present in one of her first works, namely the performance series of “Échale la culpa”, where she explored how the “femme fatale” stereotype is associated with natural catastrophes in popular culture. Subsequently, in “Witches-Bitches Bitches-Witches”, she approached the figure of witches by producing a series of images that played with clichés associated with them (night, spells, charms, long nails, etc.). The aim was to subject such clichés to a visual code unrelated to conventional imaginarium associated with witches.
In this case, AMA prelude is an initial approach to the figure of the dominatrix. It is the first part of a larger project in which she continues with the same line of research, this time addressing the imaginarium associated with the image of a dominatrix. “Based once again on the stereotype images associated with a dominatrix, new images are generated to open up possibilities and reveal things that are already there, to which we might not pay attention, thereby proposing other perspectives and a different tempo”, as explained by the artist.

Related activities: 
AZzabalik. Encuentro en torno a la creación artística (2023)
Appears in Collections:
Babestu. Contemporary creation support
Exhibition projects