sleepers and dreamers
2011 - 2015
This series began as an approach to gender violence in Mexico in 2011, when the word femicide was not yet part of the everyday language of Mexican political and social life. A few years later, I took up the project again and expanded it, addressing recumbent bodies not only as victims of violence, but also as a metaphor for political inaction, incapacity, and the lack of will to act on circumstances that harm the bodies and lives of women in my country of origin.
the sleepers
Brumell Galería: 2011
The Sleepers is a project carried out following an invitation from the Brummell Gallery to occupy its walls in 2011. This gallery is located in Toluca, State of Mexico, the most violent state in the entire country for Mexican women.
I draw a group of twenty life-size women, who are apparently sleeping, oblivious to their bodies and their circumstances. The Sleepers seek to be a silent call to action, in the years prior to the rise of the feminist movement and its many battles.
The artistic act of drawing, staining and recreating their bodies is a performative cry that urges them to wake up.
I draw a group of twenty life-size women, who are apparently sleeping, oblivious to their bodies and their circumstances. The Sleepers seek to be a silent call to action, in the years prior to the rise of the feminist movement and its many battles.
The artistic act of drawing, staining and recreating their bodies is a performative cry that urges them to wake up.
the dreamers
Mexican Senate: 2014
In 2015, I received an invitation to exhibit at the Mexican Senate, so I returned to the figure of the recumbent bodies. In this occasion, I also address the exhaustion of bodies without rest: the people who sleep on public transport or rest as they can at their workplace.
But the absent bodies also refer to the breaks of the opulent classes, their distractions and joys, and ultimately, the inaction of the political class to solve the most pressing problems of my country: the right to life, to rest and to health in its broadest sense.
But the absent bodies also refer to the breaks of the opulent classes, their distractions and joys, and ultimately, the inaction of the political class to solve the most pressing problems of my country: the right to life, to rest and to health in its broadest sense.