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La Bordada Brooch, HOMAGE TO THE ANTI MONUMENTA
VALERIA FLORESCANO
2021
Materials: Alpaca, silver and stainless steel
Technique: The front is a laminated plate pressed manually with a grid, with coated color application. The back is engraved with the author´s daughter handwriting which reads “one woman, all women”.
Measures: Height: 8.4 cm. Length: .5 cm. Width: 2.7 cm.
Photography: Bertha Herrera
On Saturday, September 25, 2021, feminist groups intervened the empty space left by the Cristopher Columbus statue recently removed from Reforma Avenue in Mexico City and placed the silhouette of a woman in color purple with her fist raised, renaming it “the roundabout of women who fight".
The silhouette of a woman that I reference, is taken from an embroidery pattern of a Quechquemetl (traditional blouse) from Puebla state published in the book “indigenous garments in México, INAH, 1968. Drawings by Teresa Castelló Yturbide and texts by Carlota Mapelli Mozzi.
My metal version of the pattern holds her fist raised as to reconfigure an appropriation of the feminine reflecting the present, the arm tinted in color purple as a representation of the movement that demands gender equality and justice for the victims of violence and femicides in Mexico.
Therefore, La Bordada is a brooch that uses the body as a form of occupation of the urban space and as a collective movement in the city, it also symbolizes loyalty, perseverance and firmness in the cause of women.
2021
Materials: Alpaca, silver and stainless steel
Technique: The front is a laminated plate pressed manually with a grid, with coated color application. The back is engraved with the author´s daughter handwriting which reads “one woman, all women”.
Measures: Height: 8.4 cm. Length: .5 cm. Width: 2.7 cm.
Photography: Bertha Herrera
On Saturday, September 25, 2021, feminist groups intervened the empty space left by the Cristopher Columbus statue recently removed from Reforma Avenue in Mexico City and placed the silhouette of a woman in color purple with her fist raised, renaming it “the roundabout of women who fight".
The silhouette of a woman that I reference, is taken from an embroidery pattern of a Quechquemetl (traditional blouse) from Puebla state published in the book “indigenous garments in México, INAH, 1968. Drawings by Teresa Castelló Yturbide and texts by Carlota Mapelli Mozzi.
My metal version of the pattern holds her fist raised as to reconfigure an appropriation of the feminine reflecting the present, the arm tinted in color purple as a representation of the movement that demands gender equality and justice for the victims of violence and femicides in Mexico.
Therefore, La Bordada is a brooch that uses the body as a form of occupation of the urban space and as a collective movement in the city, it also symbolizes loyalty, perseverance and firmness in the cause of women.
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