Bodas de oro: La tabla del ama de casa (Golden Wedding Anniversary: The Housewife’s Cutting Board)

Amalia Ruiz Díaz

born 1957

Bodas de oro: La tabla del ama de casa (Golden Wedding Anniversary: The Housewife’s Cutting Board), 2001

Where object was made: Paraguay

Material/technique: wood; paper; laminating

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 24.76 x 15.24 x 0.95 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 9 3/4 x 6 x 0 3/8 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of John Poertner and the Helen Foresman Spencer Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2010.0067.20

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Bold Women

These cutting boards poignantly address the lives and experiences of Paraguayan women by using a domestic object as a vessel for memory and identity. The boards serve as a surrogate for the women, who embody the life of their families. The ID card affixed to each board honors its user and makes her known. But the index-like nature of the boards with IDs also alludes to the disappearance, imprisonment, and murder of thousands of Paraguayans under dictator Alfredo Stroessner between 1952 and 1989.