Reflections on female images. Alicia D'Amico and Ilse Fusková in Woman's Place

Abstract

A few months before the democratic recovery, Buenos Aires attended the creation of Lugar de Mujer, a meeting place for all women. They began there an important work of recovering the social ties lost by the military dictatorship. In this context, the women sought to recover their own voice. Alicia D'Amico made several wokshops in this place with the psychologist Graciela Sikos. D’Amico began her reserch about how women could meet themselves and achieve their own image through photography. By then Ilse Fusková began the same searches as D'Amico. In her series El zapallo, the photographer analyzes the female gaze towards the naked body of a woman. This article seeks to think about the importance of reflection on one's own body through the image of two feminist photographers, Alicia D'Amico and Ilse Fusková, who in a moment of recovery of affective and political bonds, showed how women proposed other looks towards their own bodies and desires.