Friday, April 21, 2023
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Curated by Jaclyn Quaresma
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Work by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
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Images Festival, Toronto
Co-presented with Gallery TPW and The Power Plant
They have ruled over life and death. Their conjoint power has menaced hierarchies systems of government authorities. Their knowledge has competed successfully with the official knowledge to which they had no access, it has challenged it, found it wanting, threatened it, made it appear inefficacious. [1]
Accompanied by an original soundtrack by Brazilian post-punk band Rakta, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s first feature film, Oriana, borrows its structure and subject from Monique Wittig’s 1969 feminist novel Les Guérillères. Filming in her home of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, Beatriz collaborated with a cast of friends and colleagues to dream up a society no longer haunted by colonialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.
Footnotes
- Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères. Translated by David Le Vay. University of Illinois Press, 2007.
List of Works
Oriana
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
CANADIAN PREMIERE | PUERTO RICO | 2022 | DIGITAL | 78 MIN
SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Jaclyn Quaresma 