Portraying indigenous women: Between endurance and resistance

TY - ADVS

T1 - Portraying indigenous women: Between endurance and resistance

AU - Espinoza Carvajal, Andrea

PY - 2021/4/1

Y1 - 2021/4/1

N2 - Our work explores narratives, experiences and representations of indigenous women in public and private spheres. We engage with images from Ecuadorian indigenous women living and working in rural areas as Llin Llin (province of Chimborazo) and Chuquiribamba (province of Loja), but also indigenous women living and reclaiming space in urban settings as Quito (Ecuador’s capital) or Riobamba. Through our personal and professional archives, we move across a spectrum of roles and experiences embodied by women and captured by our eyes, translated into narrative, and kept as memory for us to reconstruct and remember. Our exploration aims to challenge isolated and stereotypical representations of indigenous women either as vulnerable population or, in an opposite site, as figures of social protest. Through our visual work, we want to engage with women’s multidimensional experience. We think about the self that connects with their land and community in unique ways, the self that struggles because of discrimination and lack of resources, and the self that resists and push forward in the fight for rights. We see them as separate and as one.

AB - Our work explores narratives, experiences and representations of indigenous women in public and private spheres. We engage with images from Ecuadorian indigenous women living and working in rural areas as Llin Llin (province of Chimborazo) and Chuquiribamba (province of Loja), but also indigenous women living and reclaiming space in urban settings as Quito (Ecuador’s capital) or Riobamba. Through our personal and professional archives, we move across a spectrum of roles and experiences embodied by women and captured by our eyes, translated into narrative, and kept as memory for us to reconstruct and remember. Our exploration aims to challenge isolated and stereotypical representations of indigenous women either as vulnerable population or, in an opposite site, as figures of social protest. Through our visual work, we want to engage with women’s multidimensional experience. We think about the self that connects with their land and community in unique ways, the self that struggles because of discrimination and lack of resources, and the self that resists and push forward in the fight for rights. We see them as separate and as one.

KW - Indigenous women

KW - Ecuador

KW - Collaborative research

KW - arts-based research

KW - Photography

M3 - Digital or Visual Products

ER -