Interview with Adriana Almada
Mendonca Collection.
Juan de Salazar Cultural Center, Spanish Cultural Center Pinta Sud | ASU, August 2023, Asunción
The exhibition takes its title from a seminal book on the social history of women in Paraguay, published by German researcher Barbara Potthast in 1996: "Mahoma's Paradise or Country of Women? The Role of Women and Family in Paraguayan Society during the 19th Century" (Asunción, ICPA).
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, when European travelers and artists arrived in Paraguay, they were literally confronted with "a country of women." That's what they saw. Perhaps that is the intimate reason behind this exhibition: to shake memories and expose this "country of women." And of pivotal women in culture and art.
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Artists
Fidela Álvares, Nancia Álvares, Mabel Arcondo, Olga Blinder, Rosa Brítez, Bettina Brizuela, Claudia Casarino, Leonor Cecotto, Milena Coral, Leonor De Blas, Ruth Diego, Doriana Falcón, Floriberta Fermín, Adriana González Brun, Mónica González, Teresita González, Yuki Hayashi, Sara Hooper, Julia Isídrez, Edith Jiménez, Estela Juliuz, Angélica Klassen, Francene Keery, Guillermina, Sara Leoz, Laura Mandelik, Laura Márquez, Mónica Matiauda, Esperanza Mayor, Nélida Mendoza, Silvana Nuovo, Cucherane Marina Picanere, Josefina Pla, Susana Romero, Lotte Schulz, Mabel Valdovinos, Miguela Vera, Mayelí Villalba, Karina Yaluk, and Keka Zaldívar. The list is completed with works by José María Blanch, Arnaldo Cristaldo, and Joaquín Sánchez, as well as visual documentation from Confines del Paraguay, which refers to the issue of women in Paraguay.