Yuko & Justine, 2017

Two quotes from the book The Words of Others by Argentine artist León Ferrari are the point of departure for this work. Firstly, the poetic words of Yuko Yamaguchi, a survivor of the 1945 US attack on Hiroshima, describing the moment the atomic bomb fell. Secondly, the words from Justine, the main character of the book Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu (1787), written by the Marquis de Sade. From these two quotes, and with the help of queer Chicana poet and feminist theorist Gloria Andalzúa, the work will present a fictional script made out of gestures, movements and sounds performed by the artist together with local singer Maria Pia Brancaccio and local musician Adele Pardi. This work looks for new forms of subjective memory that include misusing translations and writing personal histories in order to destabilize the boundaries and categories we are being part of.