31 août 2021
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Jamie L. Ratliff, « A woman’s place is in the “home”: The spatial politics of Daniela Rossell’s "Ricas y Famosas" », Artelogie, ID : 10.4000/artelogie.5833
The Ricas y Famosas series consists of nearly ninety photographs of mostly interior shots of elaborate and richly decorated houses inhabited by the women and men who own them, their friends, their children, and their domestic staff. The opulent surroundings and sheer abundance of material wealth sparked a general outcry that followed the photographs’ initial book-length publication in 2002. The female subjects bore the brunt of that criticism. In presenting such radically un-feminine representations of the home, Rossell deconstructs the symbolic exploitation of national womanhood and in doing so, exposes the fallacy of the home as a “private” space that is uncomplicated by the so-called “public” concerns of work, the economy, and mass media communication.