love with obstacles

Love with Obstacles (Amor Rojo) is #5 in Dora García’s series Mad Marginal (published since 2010). The volume appears on the occasion of her solo exhibition Love with Obstacles at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waldheim, Massachusetts, 13 Feb to 17 May 2020. Love with Obstacles (Amor Rojo) brings together the artist’s collaborative research on the life and legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)—a revolutionary, socialist, feminist, activist, and intellectual. The book includes Alexandra Kollontai’s essay “On the ‘Dragon’ and the ‘White Bird,’” translated into English here for the first time. It is followed by a selection of poems by Anna Akhmatova, one of the most significant Russian poets of the twentieth century. In keeping with Amor Rojo’s focus on Kollontai’s legacy in Mexico and her connection to contemporary feminist movements, the book also features a rare collection of images that document women’s struggles from the Archive of the Feminist Movement (1964 to 1990), created by the editor, activist, and photographer Ana Victoria Jiménez, and the Historical Archive of the Lesbian Feminist Movement in Mexico (1976–present), founded by the lesbian feminist activist Yan María Yaoyólotl. With contributions by Alexandra Kollontai, Anna Akhmatova, Ruth Estévez, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Maria Lind, Dora García, Carla Lamoyi, Rina Ortiz, Álvaro Ruiz Rodilla, and Ana Sofía Rodríguez Everaert. Edited by Dora García and designed by Alex Gifreu.