Prácticas artísticas en contexto. Un aporte para repensar la problemática del cuidado en Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)

Abstract

This article reviews two photographic series recently made in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) by female artists, which problematize the unequal distribution of care work between genders: “La cocina comunitaria” (Gabriela Sais, 2017-2023), and “El trabajo invisible” (Florencia Díaz and Betiana Bellofatto, 2021-2023). Gabriela Sais' work registers the asymmetries in the division of labor and gender privileges in a community center in Andorra neighborhood, organized by women in a context of scarcity. “El trabajo invisible” addresses the problem of care through interviews and portraits of six women from Ushuaia after the Covid-19 pandemic. Our work rescues the creation of meanings related to artistic practices, their insertion in a specific context, as well as their articulations with social actors beyond the field of art. We make use of some concepts such as domestic reason and affective bonding (Segato, 2018), as well as the specific analysis around photography, its uses and materialities (Fontcuberta, 2010; Bourdieu, 2003).