A work of Cristina Busto
This film is based on “The Independent Woman”, the final chapter of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, a part of the book with which the artist particularly identifies. In it, the author describes a generation of women who have won important social and work battles but still need to continue fighting to achieve full equal rights.
As an artist and a woman living at the current moment in time, Cristina Busto wishes to take co-responsibility, through her art practice, in the conquest of this territory that belongs to us, creating new symbols and points of reference that represent all women.
La mujer invisible uses “conventional” animation mixed with real images in a highly plastic process of editing. Part of the material in the final video engages with street art in the form of stencils and stickers with the image of Simone de Beauvoir and her statements, which continue to make demands but this time on the walls of the city of Avilés, where the artist lives.
In La mujer invisible, Cristina Busto once again speaks of herself and exhibits herself as an artwork, in her everyday life, her reality, her confusion, her maturity, reflecting on fashion, age, femininity, sorority, sensuality, love and solitude.
The piece has been produced through the Wom@rts programme.
Wom@rts is a European project supported by the European Commission through the Creative Europe Programme until 2021.
This Programme aims to foster the promotion and development of the cultural and creative sectors, with special emphasis on supporting cultural and audiovisual professionals, artists and organisations, as well as the performing arts, fine arts, publishing, film, television, music, interdisciplinary arts, literature, heritage and the video games industry. Its role is to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth from a pan-European perspective, as is the case with the Wom@rts project.
Wom@rts links public and private non-profit initiatives, with ten participating institutions: Ayuntamiento de Santiago de Compostela – Auditorio de Galicia (Spain), Women in Film and Television WIFT (Finland), Viesoji istaiga Vilniaus rotuse – Vilnius City Council House of Culture (Lithuania), Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir (France),. Communauté d’Agglomération du Grand Angoulême (France), Limerick Institute of Technology – Limerick School of Arts & Design (Ireland), Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts Ltd. (United Kingdom), Academy of Applied Arts University in Rijeka (Croatia), UGM Maribor Art Gallery (Slovenia), Ayuntamiento de Avilés / Fundación Municipal de Cultura (Spain).
