Janet Toro

Bienal del Mercosur

Feminine(S). visualities, actions and affects General curator Andrea Giunta The title of this biennial poses a question that points to the tension at the core of contemporary democratic culture: participation in society on the basis of “difference” understood— as Denise Ferreira da Silva puts it — as multiplicity rather than separation, as expressed by Denisse …

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El mar, la calle y las sillas

This work consists in a large format installation that uses the city and its history as a starting point. The habour of Valparaíso retains a dark memory, sealed in implacable pacts. This is the starting point of this work, a reflection on the brutal secrets that the sea contains beneath its waves: the horror of …

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Group exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985

Photographic documentation of the Performance Dos preguntas (Two questions) Pinacoteca Sao Paulo, Brazil from 18th August to 19th November 2018 Curators Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and dr. Andrea Giunta Lecture by the artist on November 12, collaboration of the Pinacoteca and Art Museum of Sao Paulo, MASP.  

Gang

In the frame of 17th Chapter, We will be-Episode of transition.

Serie Dunkel

This Serie consists of 2 objects: Grief: Light object of paper, wrapped into copies of true stories of victims of neo-nazis. The Law: Shoes of  cow leather withwrapped in texts of the german constitution of 1919.

Meine zweite Heimat

A Series of 10 Objects: Ode to the bread roll, Elegy to the hunger, Fair, Allotment, Ode to the cake, Ode to the beer, Elegy to the excess, Germany-Love, Ode to the licorice, The salami tie.

Medals and Decorations

There are 15 different objects, whose central point is a medal or medal to the authentic Nazi value, transformed and ironized by means of elements of everyday life. 1. Decorating Potato cutter, metal, 19 x 5 cm 2. Decorating Pizza Cutters, metal 20 x 9 cm 3. Decorating Strainer, metal, 18 x 7 cm 4. …

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Grenzen

Brautkleid (Wedding dress) White tulle, cloth, threads, pencil Measures: 75 x 190 cm Wedding dress sewn by hand, with more than 160 petals of cloth, labeled, with all the words of love and hate that German men have told me. In 2006 I repaired the dress and sewed new pieces of tulle. After that I …

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Habeas Corpus

In this installation I wish to insist on the material need for a sign of that negated body, which will allow us to fulfill at least on a symbolic level, the rite of burial, hence the presence of the earth, as the last element of a life cycle, that closes or opens to a new …

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Radiografía

To denude the habitable to the scrutinizing, radiographic gaze of the spectators, putting at the reach of their hands each of the objects that I use daily, opening the drawers, unpacking the suitcases, hanging from the walls of my apartment all my belongings, from the most intimate to the most profane. Here is a rupture …

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