Chapter IV
CUERPOS Y TERRITORIOS: DIÁLOGOS CON COYOLXAHUIQUI
en. Bodies and Territories: Dialogues with Coyolxauhqui / de. Körper und Territorien: Dialoge mit Coyolxauhqui
2025
Concrete sculpture in two parts: Part 1: Ø 16 × 50 cm, Part 2: Ø 12.5 × 15 cm Pigment print on backlight paper, 260 × 573 cm, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 2024 Sound installation, stereo, 3 minutes
Hotizontal installation, view of the exhibition Transformaciones de silencios / Transformationen des Schweigens, HGB Gallery Leipzig, 2025. Photo: Lea Petry
Newspaper ¡Pásala!, August 16, 2023, Archivo INAH. Excerpt from the installation Tocando Silencios, 2025.
The installation combines image, sculpture, and voice to evoke an intimate dialogue with memory and violence. A translucent red backlight print of my hometown stretches across the space, facing a life-sized concrete sculpture of women’s arms placed on the ground — caught in the uncertain gesture of either drowning or rising.
The work belongs to the series Cuerpos y Territorios: Diálogos con Coyolxauhqui and reflects on fragmented bodies, resilience, and vulnerability. The sound piece is an oral narration of my own experiences of gender violence while growing up as a child and young woman in Mexico, exposing how being seen as a woman marks the body as a contested territory. Through this encounter of image, matter, and voice, the installation insists on making visible the imprints of violence on the body and tracing their persistence across time.
