Tania Bruguer, she was born in 1968.
She is a Cuban installation and performance artist, she had a difficult life, because her art actions, she has been arrested and jailed several times.
In 1997, her work “THE BURDEN OF GUILT”, (which I pasted below), this work take on a story that local people in Cuba vowed to eat dirt and nothing else rather than become the captives
of the Spanish enslaver. Tania Bruger, she use eating of dirt as a ‘weapon of resistance’
Because in Cuban’s culture, they are from the Earth, where they had been born, which is to say, they ate their ancestors, them-selves, their history and memory, as if they were committing a cultural suicide.
After the research that I have done so far, I think this work may affect mine because nowadays our environment problems are becoming more and more serious, just like we are eating our own dirt (the resources from the earth. Just like the picture that I drew below, we are eating and destory our planet. ), once we finished, we won’t be able to survive any more.
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