The Valley of Marañas, installation by Manuella Cano Brouté.

Maraña: a mass of entangled threads or hairs; people and places that are difficult to navigate.

This body of work is a back-and-forth between elements that add up to a violent whole: hair, rashes, weeds, and other harmless agents that remain silent in the most remote places.

The tangle also refers to the images that appear in feverish dreams or after traumatic experiences. It is that which we cannot symbolize but which remains in the unconscious and is inscribed on the body as repulsion and amazement. It is what remains when the power of words disappears, giving way to the terrifying sensation of what was always there, ignored, waiting to come out.

Femininity exalts the violent nature of the tangle, when it is filled with knots, discontinuous textures, and sharp extremities, the classic sense of the feminine that proposes docile, silent, and continuous ways of representing the body is dislocated and appears as a forest of violent feverish tangles.