![]() ![]() This action commented on the nation’s passivity in responding to political crises of 1994 and the voyeuristic consumption of political spectacles and traumas. Wolffer’s nude body stood in for the national body, or the territory of Mexico, and was subjected to torture in the form of a slow, steady drip of blood onto her stomach over the course of six hours. She continued to utilise blood in one of her best-known performances, titled Territorio Mexicano/Mexican Territory (1995-1997), which she presented multiple times in museums, festivals and on television. Wolffer sensuously bathed her nude body with seven buckets of cow’s blood to undo the automatic associations of this material with shock and violence, and instead interrogate its potentially erotic, cleansing and purifying qualities. This approach can be seen in her early works, such as Báñate. ![]() The artist is noted for using her own body as material to articulate these issues for her viewers, often placing her body into uncomfortable or seemingly torturous situations. ![]() Her work addresses pressing issues, such as the crisis in gender-based violence in Mexico, in ways that challenge existing representations and social conditions and advocates for their transformation. Since the 1990s Lorena Wolffer has focused her performance-based practice on altering the political and social environment of Mexico. ![]()
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