Chilean based visual artist. Her body of work has always been strongly
related to the feminine issues of the society that she is part of.
Rosita uses a variety of mediums such as embroidery, drawing, ceramic,
and mix media. In 2015, Rosita worked with drawings creating a series of
self portraits, where she fused on her interior and exterior world.
She hand stitched body wounds, pains and emotions that she had
experienced as a woman; sentiments th
at
she feels every woman identifies with and hide underneath the cloths.
Another of her recent work is her embroidery pieces using threats dyed
with pigments of menstrual blood. Rosita is unapologetically driven to
expose the inside, and bringing it to the outside in order to transform
it into the natural. Working with menstrual pigments is a straight
challenge to the predominant Catholic religious society in Chile, where
menstruation is view as an intrinsic femenine sin and a sign of
illness: "Menstruation is not a divine punishment, but a normal activity
of our feminine bodies", which is a revolutionary statement for one the
most conservative Latin American countries. Rosita is interested in
challenging the social notions of love and womanhood. In her latest
body of work "We Are All Different", Rosita challenges once again the
Chilean Phallocentrism society. In her manifesto, she stated that since
birth, women are taught that everything revolves around male figures,
that women are an object of desire to be taken and used for men. Thus,
with her ceramic vulvas, she wants to reclaim woman's sexuality through
her own individual experiences, to her, and for her. To see more her
amazing work visit her at rositabeas.blogspot.com and Follow her @rositabeascap #5womenartists
