LIMITS OVERFLOW

Limits Overflow looks beyond the border of gender identity imposed by society. It aims to situate gender beyond the actual sex and thus away from the definitions constructed through history.

Identity is formed from the recognition of the other. It is necessary to know what one is not, to be oneself and consider personal features to reassert them as an individual or group. The conception of otherness has brought serious consequences throughout history, such as discrimination. In the case of women, male ideological hegemony has constructed paradigms around femininity, so that both men and women have anti-female feelings because of being considered the other.

The curatorship follows three main lines with the intent to deconstruct the concept of the feminine as; the inner, corporeal and social being. The works are intended to show aspects of being where gender is irrelevant, as the essence, the creation of individual spaces and the body form. And blur the boundaries between the Self and the Other, to create a dialogue born from the otherness where the female identity is not the opposite of male.

At the time of overflow, the characteristics claimed as their own lose their value. An identity constructed from habit crumbles, leaving a fertile ground for a redefinition of the self in order to bring about change in our idiosyncrasy.

- Melissa Mota