Feminicidio en Guatemala

Feminicide in Guatemala

New York, 2012-15

Hand-embroidered and -bound artist book
Edition Unique, Coptic binding
Lace, perle floss, silk ribbon, silk thread, and linen thread
16 pages
Closed: 7” x 9” x 1.5”; Open: 7” x 18” x 1.5”

Feminicidio en Guatemala is an artist book with statistics of the crime of feminicide in Guatemala from 2000 to 2010, mostly taken from the National Police records.

Each number was hand embroidered with red thread on white lace pages and is based on copperplate style calligraphy. With this work I intend not only to bring awareness about this crime but also to honor the lives of these women.

The data was collected mostly from local newspapers that published every few months articles regarding feminicide and the escalating statistics of violence against women in the country. Although most of this data came from official records real numbers are believed to be higher than what is reported to the police.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Thanks to The Center for Book Arts’ Artist-in-Residence Workspace Grant—a year long program in 2012 where I had the opportunity to take many classes in bookbinding and letterpress—which helped immensily for the production of this artist book.

Special thanks to Iviva Olenick’s Crafting a Narrative, and Karen Gorst’s essential Copperplate Calligraphy classes.

I am also grateful for the advice from Ana Paula Cordeiro, regarding coptic binding technique and general production of the book.

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RELATED PRESS:

Quiñones Otal, Emilia. “¿Cómo enfrentar la violencia en un territorio que vive de ello?” in the thesis “Transversalidad entre Violencia Patriarcal y Violencia Colonial: en las Artes Visuales de México, América Central y el Caribe Español.” Universitat de Valencia, 2014, pp 377-385

PROCESS:

Click here to see images when this piece was a work-in-progress

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960-Present,
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
September 17–December 17, 2017
Curated by Miki García and Emiliano Valdés

Feminicidio en Guatemala (Feminicide in Guatemala)
Artist Book hand-embroidered and -bound by the artist
Dimensions variable

ARTchivo
Collection of archived printed materials gathered from exhibitions visited since December 2000, in conjunction with Roni Mocán
Dimensions variable

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

Meet the Data: Source Materials Visualized,
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
July 8–September 19, 2015
Curated by Alexander Campos and Heidi Neilson

Feminicidio en Guatemala (Feminicide in Guatemala)
Artist Book hand-embroidered and -bound by the artist
Dimensions variable

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

Artists-in-Residence Workspace Exhibition,
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
April 19–June 29, 2013
Curated by Alexander Campos

Feminicidio en Guatemala (Feminicide in Guatemala)
Artist Book hand-embroidered and -bound by the artist (in progress). Each week or so I brought a finished page for the book and added it to the installation, until the end of the show.
Dimensions variable

Untitled (Front and Back/Japanese)
Pressure print of blouse embroidered with Japanese Bookbinding stitches (Tortoishell and Hemp)
24” x 18” each