CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/2/2022

Photography as a tool of resistance in 'Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists'

Tatiana Parcero’s “Interior Cartography #35” (1996) is reproduced from new release Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists, a survey exploring the connections between photography, feminism, civil rights, Indigenous sovereignty and queer liberation, published to accompany the exhibition currently on view at MoMA. In her essay, “What is a Feminist Photograph,” curator Roxana Marcoci touches on “the ecofeminist connection between the exploitation of nature and the oppression of women under a patriarchal system of ownership,” citing Parcero’s photomontage, which “superimposes imagery taken from Amerindian codices, astrological charts, flora and fauna associated with Aztec mythology and handwritten script onto the surfaces of the artist’s face and hands. Parcero’s overlay of Indigenous knowledge on the female body creates a map of self-governance linked to animist, anticolonial and natural histories—a feminist reclamation of land and a mobilization of cultural identity as resistance against colonialism’s legacy.”