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Thinking about it, my friend and videodance adventures colleague Mei Casabona, raised to me the need she felt to create something around the feminine figure. Coincidentally, from the Alcover Museum, where we were working on another project, we were brought the opportunity to reflect about the 19th century woman's figure, going through that one who spent hours and hours trapped between the walls of a kitchen, but also that bourgeoise prisoner of another kind of walls. Starting from that base, and some letters from a Catalan notary giving advice to his daughter about her marriage at the beginning of the 19th century, ANOD emerges, where we see represented the profiles of three women that aren't so distant to what we live today in certain occasions.
All this immersion in the 19th century woman made me think about the women in my family, my grandmother and my great-grandmother, not so far from the thoughts of that century. Then, I realised that they were two heroines. My grandmother lost her father at the age of 6, and three months later, her little sister died. Her mother, my great-grandmother, was a brave and decided woman who fought to keep her family going. So, in 1956, she left two children in Gorafe and took my grandmother, who at that time was only 15, to come to Catalonia searching for a better life for her family. They started serving in a house and, a year later, my grandmother started to work in a textile factory. The final result is evident, I am writing these lines and I have been able to transform my family history in the videodance called UNA VIDA MEJOR (N/T: A Better Life), precisely because coming here, my great-grandmother got what she wanted: that her family had more chances that we could have had in the countryside.
As a woman, a lot of times I felt professionally questioned, feeling degraded compared to masculine figures that did the same as me. This and other similar situations made me think and wonder. Is it like this now or has it always been like this? Have we moved forward or are we going backwards without noticing?