Matriarchal Utopia
Along with being chased and flying, many people have bad dreams in which they find themselves inexplicably, often mortifyingly, naked in public. Not Carlota Guerrero (b.1989). In the introduction to the Barcelona-born artistâs first monograph,
Tengo Un Dragón Dentro del Corazón, she recounts a memory in which she, as a small child, fantasised about tearing her clothes off in class. If public nudity is meant to symbolise insecurity, shame or uncertainty in a dream, for Guerrero itâs become quite the opposite. For her, the nude woman is âa spiritual force. The one who accepts herself in her most natural condition is the most luminous, the strongestâ¦â