Muerte (2015)

Muerte were two ceramic projects that reflect on femicide and queer genocide as material realities globally and from Turtle Island to Abya Yala.

Cena is a kitchy reflection on domestic violence. Exploring the dinner, the cena, as a metaphor for the traditional role of femmes and women in the family unit. As a horrific twist, the dutiful “wife” and “femme partner” in this scene just does not serve dinner, they serve themselves for dinner. Cena talks about the domestic violence that plays out in the everyday that can escalate beyond proportion in a quiet and sneaky way. This is the lived experience of many femmes and women at the expense of the patriarchy.

Un Dedo is a project that reflects on the mass femicide that happens throughout so-called Mexico, an insidious imprint of colonization that circulates the historical violence of Conquistador men on Indigenous women through contemporary violence and social norms that continues on forcefully and is reinforced by the state. Gently twisted and mangled fingers along with cross-sections of bone are arranged to form the nation state of Mexico. There are bodies that can never claim justice, that can never point out their perpetrators, who are silent fingers and bones hidden and sprinkled across the land. And it is this violence that the nation of Mexico is founded on, that forms and reinforces its borders through time, past and present.