Female bodies and contact sports

The construction of the muscular female body challenges the historical notion of the idea of fragility through the systematic practice of combat disciplines such as grappling, wrestling or other mixed arts. Biomechanics, strategy, discipline and reading the opponent redefine strength beyond (and through) muscle mass. In the confrontation, understood as a space for bodily negotiation, the imposed passivity is disarticulated. From this experience, the body emerges not only as a material entity, but also as a discourse in tension with the structures that seek to domesticate it. 

By  Heidi Ramírez

Audiovisual and Performance Producer and in Photography and Creative Documentary. She researches and focuses on (self) representation and the sensorial to inhabit other dynamics of audiovisual creation. Some of his works have been exhibited in “Contra la raza”, Matadero Madrid, in the Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar (Senegal), in the Pamplona meetings and in “Cuerpos y Culturas” of the VII Encuentro Cultura y Ciudadanía. She has also been a juror/selectionist at film festivals such as the FIC-CAT (Festival Internacional de Cinema en Català), the Mostra de Dones and, currently, the documentary film festival Docs Barcelona.