5.3.2022
Double exhibition, What the Foucault, Temporal San José, Costa Rica
With a pinch of humour, the artist's installation and participatory project highlights a specific problem of gender roles in art history and academic education, with the intention of criticising traditional art school education and the permanence of references and sources of information from white male authors, making many contributions, texts and artistic works by women invisible in history.
She says that as an art student for mediation and curation in Zurich, she asked herself the question: Why are we almost only taught texts of this kind? Why aren't we given Material created by women? This led her to create the Philo Flags: philosophical flags project.
These Philo Flags are making a stopover in Costa Rica for a limited time and have been accompanying the artist on her journey for two years. This sea of flags moves from one place to another as a symbol of resistance and protest. At the same time, Seline mentions women who were historically important for her region and for our region, using wordplay to give meaning to phrases related to the individual women and their art. With hope and laughter, this project blows with the breeze of the tropical air in the garden of Temporal.
(Text by Carlos Fernández)
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