Eulalia Grau - Etnografias

The series of photomontages on canvas made by Eulalia Grau in the early 1970s, a transgressive response of a young Spanish feminist artist to the authoritarian Franco society that conditions thoughts and bodies. "The title Etnografia refers to a field study of the lifestyles, customs and culture of a given society. Over a period of two years, between 1972 and 1974, Eulalia Grau sought to examine Spanish society from a particular point of view: that of a young Catalan woman deprived of her fundamental rights, as a feminist, as a Marxist. [...]. It is important to note that Eulalia Grau explores the roles assigned to both women and men, the latter assumed to be athletes, bodybuilders, car buffs, businessmen, soldiers, dictators and gangsters. [...]