Zapatos Rojos
Red Shoes
#ZapatosRojos or #RedShoes is an art project realized by the Mexican artist #ElinaChauvet. It deals with a city route which consists in lots of pairs of red or red-painted shoes to commemorate the many cases of #ViolenceAgainstWomen in the whole world. In particular, her first work was realized in #CiudadJuarez, the border city between #Mexico and the #UnitedStates, where for the first time it was used the expression “ #femicide ”.
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Here, indeed hundreds and hundreds of women were abducted, raped and then killed since 1993. It’s not known the real number of victims, but it’s known that the authorities have never seriously considered this shameful truth, covering everything and never making justice for the women killed or their families.
[…] Elina Chauvet organized the first “#SilentProtest ” by collecting 33 pairs of red shoes and arranging them in place as to simulate a protest march of absent #women.
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This project expands also in other countries up to in #Italy: Milan, Turin, Genoa, Lecce and now it’s the turn of Bergamo, where there will be two art installations that occupy the Old Town Square […]
from Zapatos rojos: red shoes against women violence
Elina Chauvet
#ZapatosRojos #RedShoes #ProtestArt #ElinaChauvet #InstalationArt #SilentProtest #violence #ViolenceAgainstWomen
Photo and text by https://sculptureintheexpandedfield.wordpress.com
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