This collage is composed of images of works by different modern artists, which have influenced my personal and artistic trajectory, to which I want to pay homage.
The portrayed body is converted into a canvas where each added image refers to a certain type of discrimination, stereotype, gender violence or crime against humanity.
The name of the work, the name of the author or authors, the associated phenomenon, the related technical data and sources are written next to each image in the collage.
The face of the person photographed is covered by a mirror sheet so that those who enjoy the work can interact and identify with the subject of the work itself.
In the title I quote the book "The art of war" by Sun Tzu (IV BC), because the woman's body has been a battlefield for millennia. Gender-based violence and violence against women is an ancient and global war.
Through artistic language I want to talk about some battles that are still being fought and that affect all areas of our lives, because violence is systemic and its expressions are multiple and transversal.
From the art of war I inverted the words and came to the "War of art", because I believe that art is a means to change the state of things. It starts as a personal moment of reflection, it affects the people included in the creative process and in the end it reaches the viewer generating a new elaboration.
My desire is that the writings around the figure vanish and that it returns to being as it really is, free.
A heterogeneous group of women collaborated in this research work and helped me reflect on the issue of gender-based violence. It does not pretend to be exhaustive, but it wants to be a choral work where:
"If whoever is in the minority perseveres, it determines the victory of a larger enemy." Sun Tzu.
The Spanish version of the work was donated to the "House of Women" in Palma de Mallorca.