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Mexican Artist’s Embroidery Unravels International Gender Violence Disaster 
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Mexican Artist’s Embroidery Unravels International Gender Violence Disaster 

Last updated: March 26, 2025 2:21 am
Editorial Board Published March 26, 2025
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Editor’s Word: The next story incorporates discussions of sexual assault and bodily abuse. When you or somebody you already know is struggling, name 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to on-line.rainn.org.

Practically 40% of Mexican ladies and women have skilled intimate accomplice violence, in keeping with a 2021 nationwide survey of over 3,500 contributors ages 15 and up, with greater than a fifth reporting incidents throughout the final 12 months. Bookending Girls’s Historical past Month with a vital name to finish this cycle, a pop-up exhibition of Mexican artist and activist Elina Chauvet’s work in New York Metropolis will probe gender-based violence, home abuse, and femicides as a nationwide phenomenon and a universally felt disaster. Curated by Galería 1204 Director Lorena Ramos and MAD54 founder Aida Valdez, Corazón al Hilo will run from March 26–29 at at 102 Franklin Avenue in Tribeca.

Chauvet made waves internationally in 2009 with “Zapatos Rojos (Red Shoes),” a poignant public protest set up that organized a whole lot of donated pairs of footwear in formation, every standing in for a lady who was killed or disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico — together with Chauvet’s personal sister, who was killed by her husband at age 32.

Elina Chauvet, “Zapatos Rojos (Red Shoes)” (2009–) set up in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, March 2024 (photograph by Vanessa Olguín)

In a brand new physique of labor on view this week, Chauvet stitches a line between delicacy and brutality, approaching the seeds of spousal abuse and subjugation that germinate into violence and sometimes homicide. The embroidery sequence, titled Heridas Domesticas (2023–), pierces dainty white doily place settings with blood-red threads spelling out insults in Spanish: “estúpida” (“stupid”), “tonta” (“dumb” or “idiot”), and “inútil” (“useless”). The phrases are accompanied by phrases like “Calladita te ves más bonita” (“you look prettier when you keep quiet”) and “Solo sirves para servir” (“you are only good for serving.”)

K1 6249 1Translation: “Here, the one who pays, rules.” One in every of a number of hand-embroidered textiles from Elina Chauvet’s ongoing Heridas Domesticas (Home Wounds) (2023–) sequence.

One doily reads “Aquí el que paga manda,” which interprets to “Here, the one who pays, rules,” underscoring the gender disparity of unpaid home labor and craftwork versus employment in addition to the precariousness of monetary dependence in abusive conditions.

She deployed such aesthetic gentleness with aggressive textual content in an effort to “provoke reflection and stir the conscience of both genders,” noting that each women and men have been receptive to the sequence thus far.

Copy of K1 6239 3Translation: “You look prettier when you’re quiet.“

In addition to Heridas Domesticas, Chauvet’s exhibition will also include a session of her ongoing performance “Confianza” (2013–), wherein the artist quietly hand-embroiders textual content onto a marriage costume. “Confianza” was born from the efficiency of late Italian feminist artist Pippa Bacca, who set out together with her pal and fellow artist Silvia Moro on a global hitchhiking tour in 2008 from Italy to Jerusalem in white marriage ceremony attire to advertise world peace and a “marriage between different peoples and nations.” Bacca and Moro break up up in close to Istanbul with the intention of discovering one another once more in Beirut, however Bacca disappeared and was later discovered lifeless after being raped and strangled by a person she accepted a experience from in Gebze, Turkey.

K1 6244 3 1Translation: “Tired of what? You don’t work.”

Chauvet embroiders Bacca’s story and her understanding of belief onto the costume in public areas internationally. In a video shared on social media, she recalled being ejected from the grounds outdoors the United Nations constructing in New York for embroidering “Confianza” onsite.

“Sitting outside the UN building to embroider was symbolically important to me,” she advised Hyperallergic. “I didn’t expect to be threatened with arrest if I refused to leave, even after explaining the purpose of my action to the officer. That was the moment I realized the symbolic and political power of a needle and thread — how an act as simple as embroidery can become a form of resistance, protest, and struggle.”

image0 3Safety guards ask Elina Chauvet to cease her “Confianza” (2013–) efficiency and depart the United Nations Headquarters grounds.

Chauvet talked about that she was detained by Vatican police whereas performing in St. Peter’s Sq., the place she devoted the piece to moms whose daughters had been victims of femicide in Mexico.

“Despite multicultural differences, there are common languages and patterns that transcend ethnic, cultural, social, and economic distinctions,” she continued. “Women have been subjected to the same patriarchal and misogynistic systems in similar ways worldwide. That is why I choose to address these issues through art using a universal language — one that everyone can understand.”

Chauvet will host a “Confianza” workshop at some stage in the pop-up exhibition’s closing day, inviting New Yorkers to mirror on belief and ongoing violence towards ladies. 

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