Florencia Villa

Flaca Escopeta

Florencia Villa (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a lens-based artist living in Brooklyn whose work intertwines her commentary on Argentinian patriarchal upbringing with surreal aesthetics.

Flaca Escopeta is a series of surreal black-and-white photographs paired with video, in which Florencia Villa draws criticism to patriarchal structures in Argentina— By creating images at the studio of chopped-off body parts, she represents how she felt disconnected from her body and sense of self, due to the objectifying male gaze of her culture. The body images are paired with still lives of her Argentinian house and a gun. “Flaca escopeta” is the gaucho translation for “little shotgun,” This nickname, assigned by her father, would compare her scrawny legs to the barrel of a gun.