User:Marielvaca/gap analysis

Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

For this project I wanted to search for a Latin American artist. I started by using Google and searching for “artistas feministas” and the result at the top of the page was titled “Mujeres Artistas y Artistas Feministas” which means “Women Artists  and Feminist Artists”. When I clicked on the link it took me to a website : www.artisteras.com/artes/. I then chose from the photography category and came across various names, Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio’s name caught my attention. I searched for her name and came across various sites with information on her work and her career as a professor, however Wikipedia did not yield such results. There was however a suggestion to create a page or check a result which included her name. When I clicked on the link it took me to a page for Michel Bouvet, a male French design and poster artist. Her name was indeed listed in the footnotes that were linked to a reference to an exhibit that Mr. Bouvet curated in 2006 titled “9 Women in Graphic Design”. Out of the nine women whose names were in the “notes” only one was hyperlinked, April Greiman, a white woman working out of California. The other women were from Japan, Poland, Colombia, Peru, Lebanon, Belgium, Czech Republic and Portugal. The gap I found was not only in regards to the lack of information on Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio and the fact that her name only came up when linked to a male artist but also in regards to culture. I find it easier to find pages on Western artists and very few on people from other parts of the world. This limits our scope of what feminist work is considered noteworthy since Wikipedia on “notable” people/work/events.
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 * Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio was born in Líma, Perú in 1973 . She received her Masters in Gender, Sexuality and Public Politics from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and is currently a professor of visual arts at Universidad Catolica del Perú (PUCP) in addition to teaching at Corriente Alterna, an alternative art school . Her artistic work centers around issues of gender roles specifically women’s roles in society in connection with religion, personal relationships, maternity and domestic duties . Iguiñiz confronts these issues and constructs a dialogue through photography as the main medium but utilizes various other artistic expressions such as wheat paste posters and online publications .  Some of her most prominent work includes five of her solo projects :
 * La pérdida/la perdida (Forúm gallery, 2008)
 * La Otra (Forúm gallery,2001)
 * Chunniqwas/Periodo 1980-2000 (Bienal de Cuenca-Ecuador, 2004)
 * Pequeñas Historias de Maternidad (Forúm gallery,2005 & Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma, 2008) She has participated in over fifty collective exhibitions in cities all over the world including Líma (Cuerpos volátiles: Representaciones para un fin de Siglo), Cagnes-Sur-Mer (III Festival Internacional de la Peintura), Paris(Exposicion Arte del Mundo by Beaux Arts Magazine), Madrid and many more .  Her exhibit titled Buscando a María Elena has won her an award for Premio a la Producción Artistica 2013 from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú . This two-part photo series revolves around the story and person of María Elena Moyano Delgado, an Afro-Peruvian community leader and activist who was brutally assassinated in February 15th 1992 by insurgents however her case remains open.


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