#NiUnaMenos © 2019 :: CCHSN
“#NiUnaMenos”
VISIBLE. Art and Women Contest
Centro Comarcal de Humanidades Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN, Madrid, Spain
17/02/2019 to 07/04/2019
#NiUnaMenos is the name given to the call for a mobilisation to stop male violence in Argentina, which took place for the first time on 3 June 2015. The slogan "Not one less woman, not one more death" was coined by the Mexican poet and activist Susana Chávez Castillo in the 1990s to denounce the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. This hashtag has spread around the world, with Spain being one of the countries that has used it in its mobilisations against gender violence.
The artistic installation #NiUnaMenos makes visible, in the form of a three-dimensional diagram, the murders of women committed in Spain as a result of gender violence in 2018. The data allows us to quantify through figures an alarming social scourge that we have not yet been able to eradicate. Every year innocent victims lose their lives, their dreams and their freedom; discriminated against because they are women (feminicide).
Suspended in space, 47 crystalline test tubes, containing an intense reddish liquid, allude to the murders classified within the typology of official intimate femicide (women murdered by a man with whom they were or had been in a relationship). The level of liquid in the test tubes indicates the age range of death. On the vertical canvas of the room and on both sides, a diagram of lines is articulated, whose nodes converge in the number of murders (per month) that occurred throughout the year, until a total figure of 97 is reached. Each month is completed with the name, surname and age of each of the victims. On the horizontal plane of the floor, a constellation of 97 white circles with a red spot in the centre reinforces the installation, like a scatter graph.
The spectator is introduced into a diagrammatic cartography, based on truthful data, and constructed through the suspension of a fragile and tense structure, which addresses the vulnerability, fragility and hardness of the female condition, through the use of two highly symbolic materials: glass and water.
CREDITS::
Conceptualisation: Esther Pizarro
Production: Esther Pizarro Studio
Photography: Markus Schroll
Organised by: Centro Comarcal de Humanidades Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN
Exhibition mounting: Esther Pizarro Studio, Markus Schroll
Funding: Project carried out with the support of the Dirección General de Promoción Cultural, Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid.
First Prize VISIBLES. Certamen de Arte y Mujer. Centro Comarcal de Humanidades Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN. Dirección General de Promoción Cultural, Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid. La Cabrera, Madrid
