Playfulness
Installation site-specific.
More than one hundred drawings, markers on cardboard, different sizes, 2025.
Playfulness: between revenge, recovery and re-signification
The lack of playfulness is not symptomatic of lack of health. I am not a healthy being in the worlds that construct me unplayful.
— Marìa Lugones, 1987
Playfulness is an ongoing work that currently features around a hundred pieces but which aims to grow towards a thousand.
The aim of the work is to question the idea that credibility requires seriousness; the aim is to undermine the hierarchy of the arts that keeps certain media and materials (for example illustration and markers) out of art galleries and to overturn the role of women as "eternal minors".
I recovered a childish, almost self-taught graphic style, finally freed from years of study, that lent itself well to crooked lines and coloring outside the edges. I chose to use materials traditionally associated with childhood, cardboard and markers, to intensify the effect of an illustrative project.
I employed an intersectional feminist approach in the design of each drawing, with a particular focus on gender, class, race and environmental issues to create a strong contrast between the childish, girlish, playful simplicity of the drawings, and the complexity of the themes they address.
Playfulness is, in part, an openness to being a fool, which is a combination of not worrying about competence, not being self-important, not taking norms as sacred and finding ambiguity and double edges a source of wisdom and delight.
— Marìa Lugones, 1987