Ni una menos

"Ni una menos" is a collective cry against gender violence. It arose from the need to say "enough femicide" because in Argentina every 30 hours a woman is murder just for being a woman. The call came from a group of journalists, activists, artists, but grew when society endorsed and made a collective campaign. Thousands of people, hundreds of organizations across the country, schools, members of all political parties  joined to "Ni una menos". Because the request is urgent and the change is possible, "Ni una Menos" settled in the public and political agenda.

On June 3rd, 2015, at the Congress Square in Buenos Aires and at hundreds of other squares around Argentina a multitude of voices, identities and flags showed that "Ni Una Menos" is not the end of something but the beginning of a new path. To this Argentine feminist movement, which began in the year 2015 and which is against all violence and attacks on women, joined different countries of Spain and Latin America.

I think it is very interesting that women come together and fight for the rights we all have, but nobody respect, because we live in society, that was created with violence from its beginnings; for that reason, violence is a natural reaction in the society.

I will always agree with any collective movement that is in favor of coexistence and good living because any movement that fights against repression and any kind of abuse, is good.

I do not pardon the violence in any way, but if you do not fight personally for your own life, nobody will do it for you. 

A lot of education, a lot of social laws, but the world is still being a jungle where the stronger survives, at least life is like that in Latin America.

artist referent

Tanya Maluenda Toledo.

Her work is inserted in aesthetic investigation and the creation from the "Orfebrería" as a language linked to antrhopology and sociology, reflexion field and experimentation as sociocultural.

   

I like this artist because she was my workshop teacher during 4 years and is one of my references.

Working at the "Orfebrería" workshop with blowtorch, hammer, and embossing tools on a bronze plate of 2mm  thick, 60cm. lenght and 20cm. width.

The bronze plate is fire in an oven at 200 Celsius degrees, to melt the metal before starting to work.

On a bed of warm pitch it's placed a bronze plate until all its banks are inmerse in the bed. Once inmerse all the bronze plate it's left to get cold.

When the bronze plate is already well held on the bed of pitch warmth it's applied with a blowtorch. Then start hammering the bronze plate, giving it shape with the tools and the hammer.

My job consists of human anatomy, I give human shapes to the metal with cold embossing technique on bronze. It began with faces exercises, as a sketch drawing, bringing the "Orfebrería" to a more sculptural degree.