Absence
Location Barcelona / CDMX / Helsinki / Tartu
Year 2013 / 2015 / 2017 / 2018
Venue Roca Umbert / Filux / LUX / Tartu in Light
Type of Project Light Installation
Absence is an interactive artwork produced in collaboration with the artist Mónica Loyola.
This light and sound installation addresses the social problem of femicide in Mexico and pays tribute to women through poetry.
The installation consists of a sewing machine and thread screens on which a poem is projected to subtly commemorate women brutally murdered in Mexico, thus evoking the dead women of Juarez, specifically maquiladora workers in Ciudad Juarez. Representative of all women lost in the country, this case has been etched in the collective memory of Mexicans as one of the first femicides.
Monodata developed the sound piece and the interactive software for the installation and was responsible for the technical setup at each venue.
“We are tired of reading the news and of knowing how they feel when they find the body without life. Today we live in a time of crisis and violence. In our day-to-day lives, we witness death in many ways (economic, moral, hope, etc). To think of light as the link between life and death, as a symbol of hope, or to understand that light is not a body but the shape of all bodies. Light is connected with life and death. Light gives life to this poem to another missing woman.” Monica Loyola
Concept and ideaMónica Loyola
Software development and sound designEduardo Jiménez
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