Cerrucha

Feminist ARTivist who uses art as a tool to question the social construction of Otherness and promote dialogue and reflection on HRD issues, especially gender.

She uses photography, performance and the intervention of public space as the main media, with citizen participation being a key element in her artistic practice.

LOCK: f. from Latin cer to exist; manual tool that uses art to open the mind of those who observe the work; It is the serrated blade that subversively speaks to your senses: CERRUCHA, conjugation in the present of the verb to close the minds of others, breaking of preconceptions, sowing of questions.

Victorias Aladas On August 16, 2019, the streets and Victoria Alada, an emblematic monument also known as the Angel of Independence, were dyed in colors demanding justice for gender violence in Mexico City. The next morning the city woke up shocked by the demonstrations on the monument, not by the miles of raped and murdered women or by the impunity that allows them. In the series Winged Victories, the four goddesses at the base of the Independence Monument come to life embodying the most powerful slogans that were inscribed during the feminist march, evidencing the hypocrisy that exists in Mexico regarding the defense of the monument on the life of women. The Winged Victory now has scars that reveal the wounds of the country.

Each goddess has the real texture of the elements that make up the monument, different types of marble and stone, and the phrases on their bodies are some of the graffiti that are inscribed in the Winged Victory.

They will never again have the comfort of our silence.

La Antimonumenta! The “Antimonumenta Vivas nos Queremos” is an anti-monument dedicated to the victims of femicide in Mexico. Located in the heart of Mexico City it was set up on March 8th, 2019 on Reforma Avenue in front of the Bellas Artes Museum. It was created by families of victims of femicide and feminist groups with the help of various NGO’s demanding a stop to violence against women.The anti-monument is a large scale metal structure in the shape of the iconic feminist symbol with a fist in the center, and a text reading “In Mexico 9 women a day are murdered.” As of August, 2020 that number has risen, it's now between 10 to 12 murdered women a day; we are in a state of national emergency. Opposed to monuments placed by the government in turn, anti-monuments are set up by civil society demanding memory, truth and justice.

On March 8, 2019, during the march for International Women's Day, a large group of organized civilians built the Antimonumenta. This involved breaking the sidewalk, digging a hole and grounding the foundations with cement.

BIO

Cerrucha (México, 1981)

Cerrucha is a feminist artivist working with photography, performance, and intervention of public space. Relational aesthetics are the core of her participatory projects, where she explores the social construct of Otherness. Her series “Mapping Skin Deep” was nominated for the Award for Public Art 2017 (USA/China). She holds a BFA in Photography by Concordia University (CA) and works as an anti-oppression facilitator and consultant for various organizations and has received commissions from UN Women France, the Exterior Relations Secretariat, and the Mexican Congress amongst others. Her latest project, “Trench,” is a permanent photographic installation portraying more than 100 women united covering an entire train of Mexico City's subway system.