Client: Self
Mala Mujer
DIRECTION
VIDEO ART PRODUCTION
Role: Director, Writer, Producer, Performer
In Santeria, “They believe that by offering the blood or energy from an animal that the animal is taking on the illness of that individual.”
Mala Mujer is a two-channel video piece. In each video a Dominican woman runs after a rooster, a longstanding symbol of masculinity in Latin American society, and brings it to her shrinelike bedroom. Defiantly staring at the camera she slits the roosters throat and lets the blood flow like a river down the bed. The previously popular song called “Mala Mujer” with the lyrics “kill her , kill her, kill her” plays throughout.
It is a piece in the name of the women murdered by their partners in the Dominican Republic. The piece uses symbolism taken from Santeria, a blend of the African religion of Yoruba and the Roman Catholic faith, where there is a tradition of cutting the head off a chicken for religious purposes, like to help cure a loved one’s illness.
In Santeria, “They believe that by offering the blood or energy from an animal that the animal is taking on the illness of that individual.”
Mala Mujer is a two-channel video piece. In each video a Dominican woman runs after a rooster, a longstanding symbol of masculinity in Latin American society, and brings it to her shrinelike bedroom. Defiantly staring at the camera she slits the roosters throat and lets the blood flow like a river down the bed. The previously popular song called “Mala Mujer” with the lyrics “kill her , kill her, kill her” plays throughout.
It is a piece in the name of the women murdered by their partners in the Dominican Republic. The piece uses symbolism taken from Santeria, a blend of the African religion of Yoruba and the Roman Catholic faith, where there is a tradition of cutting the head off a chicken for religious purposes, like to help cure a loved one’s illness.
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AMALA STUDIO
NYC LONDON SANTO DOMINGO
NYC LONDON SANTO DOMINGO