This is a portrait of Daryl Hannah’s character in the film Clan of the Cave Bear (1986). Ayla is first a defenseless little girl who finds herself isolated, adopted by a tribe of Neanderthals and being the only human amongst them. As she grows up, she goes from being made to feel inferior and being used as a sexual object by the men in the tribe, to discovering her physical strength and her unique gift for healing. I wanted to capture her not as a sexy female movie character, but as uncanny and potent with her ritual body paint and Daryl Hannah’s androgynous features.

Plata sobre gelatina
34 x 29 cm
SIGROPAM: 14769
Secretaría de Cultura-INBA-Museo Tamayo
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Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, 2017
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