Description

The female body – especially that of indigenous, poor, and racialized women – has become a battlefield upon which patriarchy, state, and capital write themselves. In contexts of violence, this body is paradoxically rarely recognized as a victim. Instead, it is criminalized, accused, suspected – it is turned into the “body of crime”. Not the perpetrator, but the woman’s body is under suspicion.

This work makes visible how certain bodies, solely through their existence, are historically read as guilty – through colonial and patriarchal structures that continue to have an effect today.

Out of this conviction, my own body became the starting point. Through my silhouette, I created two objects: The first – “Ni Una Mas, Ni Una Menos”; speaks about violence and the scars that remain. The second – “Mucho Amor”; is about resistance – transforming pain into power, not only to survive, but to exist anew.