FLIC Magazine | Mariana Orozco | Gender and art | Scoop.it

"Lifted out of its better-known life as a novel, Maridos (Husbands) by Angeles Mastretta is being shifted or rather erased by the artist Mariana Orozco into a form of visual poetry in which the book will be an artist book and object rather than a tekst.

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By slowly scraping away text from the 300-page novel Orozco leaves words or sentences suspended in the space of absent words. The attributes of the book are transformed into Orozcos’ own concrete poetry. It is a book of stories about women’s lives and loves in contemporary Latin society.[...]"