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Quote #18: The Invisibles

“I feel sad. I don’t know where my son is. I feel a huge amount of sadness…When he left he said, ‘Mum, I’ll call you in 12 days’, but I never heard from him again. I still have hope.” – Mother of Migrant (Mexico, 2010)

Nov, 09

Day 12: Art against femicide (Part II)

Co-Curators Dolores Mercado and Linda Xochitl Tortolero, discuss the exhibition Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez. Unsolved murders of the women in this border town are brought to light through the works of artists featured in the exhibit.

Mar, 12

Day 11: Art against femicide (Part I)

Honeyspace’s fourth show was called Portrait of Silvia Elena, a memorial to 17-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera Morales who was killed in 1995 — one of the first victims of the unsolved femicides taking place in Juarez, Mexico over the past 10 years.

Mar, 11

homegirls & handgrenades: Comandante Ramona

When Mexico's balaclava-clad Subcomandante Marcos launched his Zapatista rebellion in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in January 1994, a tiny woman in gaily embroidered native huipil blouse was often seen alongside him, all but her eyes masked by a pink bandanna. She looked as though she had never used the Vietnam-era rifle that almost dwarfed her, and some say she never did.