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Borré las paredes de las pintas

Title
Borré las paredes de las pintas / Diana Cano Miranda.
Author
Cano Miranda, Diana
Publication
Ciudad de México : [publisher not identified] : The author, 2021.

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Description
42 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations; 15 x 20 cm +
Summary
During the feminist protests that took place in Mexico City throughout 2019, the city and state government, as well as institutions like UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) took down and erased graffiti done by women that denounced pervasive gender-based violence. In erasing their words, the government claimed that they were protecting property: statues, monuments, and buildings, and in this way, they prioritized protecting objects over listening to the outrage of thousands of women. This exercise is based on the inversion of what one wishes to keep and what remains. Borré las paredes de las pintas (I erased the walls from the graffitis) reveals a larger truth; one that is told in the decision to remove, to take down: erasure is political. "In this book a series of photographs have been transformed into writing; in each shot the walls, doors, metal curtains, columns and monuments have disappeared. The original images, before being intervened, were a record of feminist graffiti in different public spaces of the City and the State of Mexico. Removing the buildings is, in principle, a gesture inversely proportional to that of the authorities who, the day after a march (or a few hours later) urgently go out to erase everything, arguing the defense of heritage.".
Subject
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Graffiti > Mexico > 21st century > Pictorial works
  • Letters in art
  • Photobooks > Mexico > 21st century > Specimens
Genre/Form
  • Artists' books – Colombia – 2020
  • Artists' books – Mexico – 2021
  • Photobook
  • Pictorial works
  • Limitation statements (Publishing)
  • Authors' autographs (Provenance)
Note
  • Title from page [36]
  • 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author.
  • "Proyecto autogestivo".
  • "Obra certificada. Galeria Mal de Ojo" --Sticker in protective bag.
Language (note)
  • In Spanish.
Contents
Presentation / Verónica Gerber Bicecci.
OCLC
  • 1377764787
  • SCSB-14608496
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries