La Bugada

La Bugada (The Laundry) is a creative workshop that metaphorically recreates the intimate and complicit encounter between the women who washed clothes by hand in a public washroom.We use the public washroom as a metaphor, as the only extra-familial female coexistence space to which many women had access in a certain historical period, when they could not go alone on the street and were not allowed to enter bars. We recreated this type of architectural space, where dirty clothes were taken away and what came out clean, a place where you could come to wash your conscience, rinse your thoughts, clarify your fears, rub hard until you reveal your desires and dreams.

This project is aimed at the women of the municipality without any age limit.We put the emphasis on the encounter between women and we want these women to give voice and body to the situations we have to live as individuals and as a society, making them a vantage point of our existence.

During the creation process, based on questions and a series of basic questions, I put to the participants some key ideas to question the perpetuation of gender stereotypes, the construction of identity, the differential treatment in the behaviors and expectations of each gender and sexist language.

The scenic language I use for creation is text, sound and the body in motion.

Analysis, reflection and dance are the backbone of the whole process.

It opens up a space for thought and also for the memory of a time and lost customs.

We reflect on the use and disuse of public space.

We portray and recreate a domestic practice that has almost disappeared in our days.

We reflect on the role of women in the framework of coexistence and in the order of the community.

We give visibility to women on a creative and social level.