“I’m still processing it”, commented some spectators after attending the premiere at the Antic Teatre this Thursday of the last show of Juana Dolores, ‘Hit me if I’m pretty * or the modern princess’. After the accusations of the versatile artist and poet against her former production company, the premiere had raised a lot of expectation, especially among the press.
Joan did not disappoint. He presented a provocative show where the complaint for ill-treatment that he presented against his ex-partner – which he read while eating cherries naked and spitting out the bones – was mixed with the Barbie world, his criticism of the infantilization of women and his contempt for patriarchal society towards the feminine imaginary “to annul its artistic, philosophical, political, autonomous and legitimate, universal dimension”, as she herself explains.
Onanism live and on the screen, playing part of the sex videos of Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Pamela Anderson leaked without her consent, they serve to denounce the abuse she suffered when she saw images of her previous performance ‘Massa diva per un moviment assembleari’ broadcast on porn sites. She, who appears bareback on stage, combined the images of those media divas with her own porn images of hers. All seasoned with a combative speech in the show where she also projected texts from Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ that she combined with feminist theories by speaking into the microphone or shouting in her feminist defense.
Overwhelming
Forceful, rabid and not very subtle. Very direct, as is she. This is how Juana Dolores showed herself, an artist without mincing words that left the public knocked out. “It has very interesting things but it vomits them. Perhaps the show would need more than elaboration because everything is very crude. Although it is good for women to express their anger, creation needs to become a metaphor to be universal,” commented a spectator at the exit.
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‘Hit me if I’m pretty’ arrived more complete and finished than at its premiere in autumn at the Temporada Alta festival. The final part has violent images because violence and beauty are at the base of the feminist triptych by Juana Dolores of which this new show is a part.
A very direct speech without a hint of poetry came like one of those slaps that the performer gave herself. repeatedly until it falls to the ground. This violence that connects with those blows, physical or psychological, that too many women receive in a society where there is still a long way to go to conquer the real sovereignty that Juana Dolores claims.