Anna Maria Maiolino says, "Women have always been prohibited from speaking in the first person. ... A woman is never the universal." The artist's developmental years paralleled the Brazilian military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985. And yes, she responded: "In a photo installation from 1974 on view at both MOCA and the Hammer, she depicts herself wielding a pair of scissors, about to cut off her nose and her tongue."
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