In London, an exhibition of "400 Women"

About two hundred artists, including Tracey Emin (Tracey Emin) and Lady Paul Rego (Paula Rego), participated in a project dedicated to the memory of dead and missing women living in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. They wrote 400 portraits that on November 12, displayed at an exhibition in City Hall of London's Shoreditch.

project was initiated by British artist Tamzin Challenger (Tamsyn Challenger), during a trip to Mexico, introduced to the several families of the disappeared women. The idea to create portraits came to her after she saw a postcard with pictures of missing people, who are hoping to relatives, had to help in the search.

Ciudad Juarez, located on the border with the United States, is notorious as one of the "crime" cities in the world. Since the beginning of 1990 there were killed or disappeared more than three thousand women. Among the reasons - drug war, domestic violence, the sex trade. "It's important to let people know about the fate of these women," - said Paul Rego.

Artists painted his paintings on photographs provided by non-governmental organization Amnesty International, the group Nuestras Hijasde Regresoa Casa (« Let our daughters return home "), a collection of women's rights activists Esther Chavez (Esther Chávez) and law enforcement. Photos were not all the participants, some were known only by names. The dimensions of the work are the same as a traditional Mexican "retablo" (small zaaltarnyh paintings). The organizer of the exposition made by the curator of London's Zabludowicz Collection Ellen Mara de Wachter (Ellen Mara De Wachter). Among the artists who participated in the project, slightly more than half - women.

«Tamzin sent me a photograph, which depicts a happy family - says the artist Eileen Cooper (Eileen Cooper). - Express a portrait of all the bitterness of their loss was much harder than I imagined. I have tried to make the work of a true Mexican spirit - I hope I got it ».

Maggie Hemblin (Maggi Hambling) was an old-fashioned postcard with a photo young beauty named Paloma Angélica. From the first time, according to the artist's portrait of a girl failed: "It turned out awful, and I decided to scrape the protruding layer of paint. Get some amazing ghostly image: it seems to us, but at the same time, it does not exist ».

In 2006, the Mexican government stopped investigating the murder that finally freed the hands of criminals. . Only this year, more than three hundred women, mostly very poor people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez.

Exhibition "400 Women" will run until November 28. An American curator has already expressed his desire to bring her to the U.S.. Amnesty International, speaking as a partner in the project, is considering the possibility of producing fine art limited edition artworks.

material was prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Source: theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru