Guadalajara Jalisco.- An exhibition in the Mexican city of Guadalajara criticizes the violence with which female bodies are treated in public spaceswhich leads to harassment, sexual abuse and femicide, within the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is commemorated on November 25.
The collective “mirada tapatía”, made up of 14 photographers and artists, created “Ecos de mi muerte”a multidisciplinary project in which three figures with a female body were placed in public space to demonstrate the violence of which women are victims, Alejandra Leyva, part of the group, explained this Saturday to Efe.
the photographers they took 23 images of women’s bodies with which they formed three large-format collages that they pasted in various areas of the city in which the media have reported cases of femicide.
For several months they recorded in photographs the way in which these bodies were attackedripped or ripped out of place, as a symbolism of violence towards women
“The parts in which the collage comes off are on the chest or the vagina area or on the face, they are symbolic issues that in the end are the parts that are the first to be attacked because the body of a woman is always territory of aggression, from that we began to reflect to create the pieces”, he said.
The exhibition also includes a sound piece where the most significant cases of femicide in the city in recent years are named and another audiovisual piece in which they document the way in which society reacted to these collages.
Eva Becerra, another member of the group, stated that this project is also a memorial to the dozens of women who are murdered for reasons of gender every day in the country.
“We would have liked this exhibition not to exist, that we would not have had the need to reflect on the body, our body, nor to have read or heard, nor photographed nor found out that they were attacked, invaded, mutilated or found their body unarmed. ”, he expressed during the inauguration this Friday.
The exhibition is part of the FotoSeptiembre 2022 Exhibition Catalog of the Image Center and will be throughout November at the Constitución Cultural Center.
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According to figures from the federal government, 11 women are murdered every day in Mexico. The country recorded 1,004 femicides in 2021, that is, 2.66% more than in 2020.
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