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Alicia — Alice — 2009
by Cristina Lucas
Alice presents a gigantic figure whose face and right arm protrude from the open windows of a room
in which she seems to have been trapped. The work was inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland where the main character, driven by curiosity,
eats a cake with the words “EAT ME” written across it and begins to grow uncontrollably, to the point
that she no longer fits in the room and is forced
to stick one arm out the window. Cristina’s aim was to bring the book’s unsettling fantasy into the real world and use it as a metaphor for the physical and mental imprisonment of women as a form of oppression, trapped within the confines of their homes. Lucas’ installation presents the typical
Córdoba courtyard as a “guilded cage” for women, criticizing this negative aspect of a tradition
that dates back to Islamic times.