#NiUnaMenos © 2019
#NiUnaMenos, 2019
47 borosilicate glass tubes 85 cm long, 99 circles of blotting paper, 99 laser engraved blotting paper gussets, red tape
2030 x 510 x 300 cm (h)
Centro Comarcal de Humanidades Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN
#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
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
EXHIBITED AT::
Centro Comarcal de Humanidades Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN. “#NiUnaMenos”. VISIBLES. Certamen de Arte y Mujer. Dirección General de Promoción Cultural, Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid. La Cabrera, Madrid, España. 17/02/2019 al 07/04/2019
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. “Equivocada no es mi nombre. Arte contra la violencia machista”. Comisaria: Semíramis Gónzalez. Gijón, España. 27/09/2019 al 21/12/2019
ASSOCIATED CATALOGUE ::
AAVV (2019). Catálogo exposición: Equivocada no es mi nombre. Arte contra la violencia machista. Comisaria: Semíramis Gónzalez. Edita: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, España. ISBN: 978-84-09-14561-4. DL: AS-03027-2019
