ROMINA RIVERO
TENERIFE, 1982
The links, transfers and intertwining between the European “clear self” and the oriental “blurred self” is the constant on which my work rests, focusing my research on aspects of medicine and philosophy around biopolitical violence. I counterpose and make neoliberal Western medicine coexist with traditional medicine; and classical Taoist philosophy with certain contemporary forms of thought (Foucault and Preciado). One of the main axes are the political fictions stateized from the 17th century to the present day and their clinical discourses: bio-power, applied through thanato-politics, techno-biopolitics and pharmaco-pornopolitics. Inherent in such processes of political androcentrism over the “control of life” is the destruction of women’s power over medicine, biological and social reproduction, and social and political creativity. My work unifies and declares that the “normalization” of disciplinary procedures and the medicalization of life has turned the human being into a “subject” and life into an “object” or clinical history.