No más violencia

No más violencia contra las mujeres (2005)

Concept
In the media nowadays, “violence” is such a commonly used concept and images of violent events so ubiquitous that we are rarely surprised by what we see. Violence is an intrinsic part of our lives and there seems to be no way to counteract it—it is a fact of nature and a law of life, and the weak must suffer at the hands of the powerful for “evolution” to take place.

Violence against women is a social disease and we must resort to all possible means in order to eradicate Thanks to the research and statistics compiled by Amnesty International in España: Más allá del papel (2005) and Está en nuestras manos. No más violencia contra mujeres (2004), we have explored an often frightening reality.

Project
The installation consists of a video of stills depicting female body parts in macro format/close. Various brief accounts of specific cases of domestic violence, data, numbers, and other information on the topic can be heard, emitted by various kinds of sound equipment with loudspeakers on the wall.

This piece was made in collaboration with Amnesty International.

• Estéticas Expandidas. Centro Cultural Palatino. Pasto/Colombia, 2019.
• Net.Art y Control. (retrospective) La Neomudejar. Madrid, 2017.
• Ayermañana. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Cuenca, 2006.
• VAD Festival Internacional de vídeo i arts digitals. Girona, 2006.
• BAC. 6º Festival internacional de arte contemporáneo. Barcelona, 2005.