Mixed Media with Video Performance

After reading a story in a newspaper in Washington DC on violence and repression against women in Chilean prisons, Marisa González initiated a project with the collaboration of women colleagues and teachers at the Corcoran School of Art, to dramatise the impact of violence on their bodies, creating a performance based photographic series, under the slogan ‘the personal is political’. Among the participants were her teacher and artist Mary Beth Edelson, and her classmate Karen Sommerville. With Karen, she made her first video performance at the Corcoran Gallery entitled Violence, where political repression and torture are reflected by sequences of ‘action paintings’ on a wall of the room.

She worked on these photo sessions mounting them on modular series of high contrast acetates as shown at the Corcoran DuPont Center in Washington DC in 1975, in New York Cayman Gallery 1977, and in 1978 at the Contemporary Art Museum MEAC in Madrid, among others.