Mujeres de Juárez – (José Miguel Bayro Corrochano) Previous Next


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Date: 2001

Size: 80 x 50 cm

Museum: Fundación Universidad de las Américas Puebla (San Andrés Cholula, Mexico)

Technique: Iron

A vertical tri-fold painting with a background divided in two parts (dark at the top and light at the bottom) and an abstract female figure at the center of each fold.This piece has a social and political content denouncing the femicides of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua city in the northern border of Mexico. Femicides start to happen in large numbers since 1993. This triptych shows three different women as representation of the other hundreds murdered, tortured an raped just because of been women in a country profoundy machista.

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