27/06/16 - One of the most dramatic artworks on display at the exhibition "Dream Come True" is Cut Piece of 1964. It's a video that registers one of her performances: Yoko Ono wears her best clothes and let viewers use a pair of scissors to cut pieces of her clothing. Of this tragic, and even violent, approach, the artist pretends to bring forth a positive message, something she tries to achieve in all her production.

Yoko Ono's life can be divided into three periods. The first one in Tokyo, where she developed her feminist spirit in a society strongly attached to traditions. Thanks to his father's relations, she was able to take classes at the University and study Philosophy, an career reserved to men. She was in fact the first woman to attend that faculty and the only one in her class. The son of the Emperor was among her classmates. The second period starts in 1966, when she meets John Lennon, a popular artist, completely different to Yoko's upbringing culture. The third one starts in 1989, when she participates in an exhibition again after Lennon's death. She presents her works at the MoMA as part of a group of renown artists not belonging to the comercial circuit (she never participated in exhibitions in galleries nor had her works at auctions). We can enjoy all these many Yokos in Buenos Aires, while we wait for her call through the Talking sculpture for Argentina (which did not happen during the opening).

But if something has been constant throughout her entire life, that's her activist soul.  The instalaron Arising was shaped with the many depositions of women, both physically and spiritually hurt just for being a woman. This call began a few months back and was opened throughout the world. 

(To be continued...)