La Petite Mort

La Petit Mort proposes a dialogue between two female Caribbean artists, Maria Isabel Rueda (Cartagena, 1972) and Sara Modiano (Barranquilla, 1951-2010). Inspired by the idea that in the French language, the petite mort (or small death) is what the orgasm is commonly called, this show explores how sex and death are constant questions in the work of these artists and how, for them, are paths of mystical and physical liberation.

The works in this exhibition, which combines photography, video, sculpture, and painting, produced from 1999 to 2010, are articulated in a two-voice story about the experience of being a woman in a society marked by patriarchal and colonial heritage. However, the works chosen for La Petite Mort are also portals of emancipation in which the artistic work can be understood as a personal solution to social and cultural pathologies.