WOMEN BUILDING CITY FROM CONTEMPORARY ART

Abstract

More or less since the mid-nineteenth century, the city has undergone changes that have affected citizens, as they have done in the same way in the space we inhabit. These changes that have occurred in a more or less natural way, due to the passing of time, and others in a forced way by the authorities. There are also economic reasons, such as the development of capitalist society, that have shaped cities, favoring and causing migratory movements that perhaps have not been as beneficial as the population expected. Current art has turned its sights on the city and on the phenomena of transformation and relocation, looking for formulas and possible solutions, or at least making visible the problems that arise. Among all these experiences there is a group of women artists whose work interests me especially. They work on the territory, the public factory, the new neighborhoods, and the situation of a fictitious life where there is no longer any possibility of relationship, on the situation of those new citizens. A social / political work that demonstrates the concerns of art and highlights the function, utility and necessity of art for social construction.