{"id":1140,"date":"2024-08-23T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T12:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galeriamemoria.com\/?page_id=1140"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:42:03","slug":"maya-goded","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galeriamemoria.com\/en\/artists\/maya-goded\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Goded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The position of women, or the feminine, is fundamental to understanding how Maya Goded observes the world and the social relations that organize it. Through her photography, films and video installations, Goded’s approach to the feminine arises from sexuality, gender violence, or by presenting healing women, all from the refusal to submit to the norms established by the concepts of power and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From images of marginalized prostitutes in Mexico City, to the infinite landscapes of the desert in Chile, Goded’s work presents contradictions that coexist, revealing hidden existences that fluctuate between intimacy and exposure, between vitality and sterility, between affection and oppression, considering that antagonisms constitute the complexity of inhabiting the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her artistic and personal search, Maya Goded finds in ancestral knowledge, everything that has been attempted to be erased in the macro-narrative of modernity, an alternative to the structures of oppression and violence in contemporary societies. In this sense, and from the feminist perspective that guides Goded’s creation, the artist recovers the figures of the witch and the healer, as social elements of resistance for care. Despite efforts to demonize the female figure, these women continue to defend their territory, their bodies and their knowledge from a non-confrontational place, which spreads in care networks and in gestures of affection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 20 years, Maya Goded has been interested in gestures and processes of female transgression, whether due to the struggle of sex workers hidden in the middle of Mexico City, or due to the religious and scientific syncretism that leads the practice of healing by healers, mostly indigenous or mestizo, in small rural communities. In this effort, the artist is interested in understanding how alternative projects for the future are articulated that include nature as an axis in healing as opposed to the catastrophe proposed by supposed contemporary socioeconomic development.
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