In the context of Martha Rosler's exhibition "Maybe this time it will be different", curated by Lucrecia Palacios, for which a library on art and feminism was created, I Acevedo, Silvia Gurfein and Marina Mariasch, select a book they consider significant, comment on it and read some of its fragments.
The meetings are intended to create a space for collective reading and discussion of the materials in the library.
I Acevedo will comment on the novel En breve cárcel, by Sylvia Molloy, published in 1981 in Barcelona, Spain. Its publication in Argentina during those years was unfeasible because those were the times of the dictatorship. In 2012 the book was republished in Argentina at the initiative of Ricardo Piglia, in FCE. It is a novel that tells both the story of a lesbian passion, of a love triangle between three women, but also tells how memory is constructed and how violence is told and processed. With the passing of the years, memory and violence continue to be, like an echo, the themes that summon us to think about our practices.
Silvia Gurfein proposes as a theme the care of the elderly. Why do we not talk about the conditions of old age, old age itself, even death? Why has care historically fallen on women? She will address some intersections regarding gender issues and multiplications of precariousness, taking from the book NEW SOCIETY/256, The Invisible Economy. Feminismo, cuidados y poder, the chapter Sobre el trabajo de cuidado de los mayores y los límites del marxismo, by Silvia Federici, and from the book PAN Y AFECTOS La transformación de las familias by Elizabeth Jelin, the chapter El hogar y la familia.
Marina Mariasch will work with the question "What do women dream about?" based on Grete Stern's assemblies on the interpretation of dreams by Gino Germani, proposing a reading of the book Grete Stern: Dreams 1948 - 1951: A world of their own: modern Argentine photography 1927-1962.