ARCO Wynnie Mynerva: "The surgery to close my vagina has changed my life"
The work of the artist Winnye Minerva in ARCO, which includes an
explicit video of an operation on the author's own vagina
, could carry a 'warning' "so that no one feels uncomfortable."
This was explained by the
director of ARCO, Maribel López
, in the usual meeting with the press at the opening of the Fair, when asked about this possibility, since the video is explicit and minors also attend this meeting.
However, López has remarked that
he had not yet seen the piece
and this option has not yet been put on the table.
In any case, he also explained that this 'disclaimer' would not be something exceptional at the fair, since it
is already done with some works
such as those that have a high light output, and "it would be very different" from a type of censorship with the part.
Previously, in an interview with Europa Press, the director of ARCO already announced that there
would no longer be a censorship of pieces
, as happened in the edition of 'Political Prisoners', by Santiago Sierra.
"That was a bad moment, but learning comes out of these moments and this is something that has only happened once," she pointed out.
Asked about the number of visitors, López predicts that they
will be "a little less" than those achieved in 2020,
just before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, in part because "the dynamics have changed."
with hardly any casualties
However, the number of invited collectors will exceed 350 - this figure is practically the same as two years ago - and, in addition, it has indicated that there have been hardly any
casualties of
planned participating galleries.
"This year we have also reduced the number of participating galleries and we have only had 7-8 casualties, none at the last minute. Whenever they have called me worried, I have told them that I
preferred not to come scared
," he stressed.
Finally, the director, who has remarked that this edition of '40+1' is "a tribute" to the galleries, has recalled that
painting has returned to dominate
because "it has never disappeared".
"Commercially, it is the most successful, but there are many other quality proposals", she has concluded.
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