Borré las paredes de las pintas / Diana Cano Miranda.

Primera edición.

Ciudad de México : [publisher not identified] : The author, 2021.

42 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 15 x 20 cm + 1 staple bound booklet (4 unnumbered pages, 9 x 15 cm) and 5 stickers.

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.".

Spanish

October 11, 2023

Presentation / Verónica Gerber Bicecci.