Booth Event – Book Signing: Marilene Ribeiro

By revealing rituals for “disappearance” that Ribeiro conceives and performs with other women to heal a traumatic experience of love and death she had, ‘Photo-Rituals for Disappearance’ celebrates the ancient, magical way women have to deal with love and remedy. By absorbing the aura of pagan rituals to praise the powers of care and healing inherited from female shamans, healers and midwives, she shapes a form of resistance, a counterpoint to the stigmatization and persecution of the female being we have lived over time –labelled as “witch”.

The book deconstructs the misogynistic discourse around the ‘witch’ and brings about a new perspective based on the power of the ‘woman-being’. It brings together elements from various sources that connect the Global North with the Global South, past with present, and photography with other media (illustration, expired analogue film, 17th-century women’s recipes for natural remedies, current-time fortune teller leaflets, cyanotype and poetry).

Book signing by Marilene Ribeiro presented by FOTOLIBROS.LAT