La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East

  • Dates
    2014 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, Documentary, Social Issues, War & Conflicts
  • Locations Ecatepec, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias, Chimalhuacán

Work in progress focused on femicide violence in the Estado de México and is based on three axes: documentary photography, intervention in the territory (silhouette of a woman made of a mirror) and digital mapping of cases of femicide (google maps).

According to the National Citizen Observatory of Femicide, every day in Mexico eleven women die because of extreme violence, being the Estado of México one of the states with the highest number of cases, concentrated mainly in Ecatepec, Chimalhuacán and Nezahualcóyotl; the latter is the municipality where I live.

La muerte sale por el Oriente is a self-managed work that addresses feminicidal violence in the State of Mexico, and is based on three axes: 1) documentary photography of feminist demonstrations and actions, 2) intervention in the territory from the placement of a silhouette of a woman made of a mirror, in public spaces in the municipalities of Chimalhuacán, Neza and Valle de Chalco and 3) digital mapping of cases of femicide (via google maps).

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Process for the location of a silhouette made of a mirror in Ecatepec, one of the municipalities with the highest number of cases of femicide in Estado de México (2016).

© Sonia Madrigal - March and public demonstration on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25N. Chimalhuacán, 2018
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March and public demonstration on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25N. Chimalhuacán, 2018

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Process of placing pink wooden crosses an initiative of activist Irinea Buendía and mother of Mariana Lima Buendía, victim of feminicide in Chimalhuacán in 2010. Estado de México, 2016

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Process of placing pink wooden crosses an initiative of activist Irinea Buendía and mother of Mariana Lima Buendía, victim of feminicide in Chimalhuacán in 2010. Estado de México, 2016

© Sonia Madrigal - Public event to talk about violence against women in Cd. Nezahualcóyotl, Estado de México 2017.
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Public event to talk about violence against women in Cd. Nezahualcóyotl, Estado de México 2017.

© Sonia Madrigal - March and public demonstration on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25N. Chimalhuacán, 2017
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March and public demonstration on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25N. Chimalhuacán, 2017

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Process of placing pink wooden crosses an initiative of activist Irinea Buendía and mother of Mariana Lima Buendía, victim of feminicide in Chimalhuacán in 2010. Estado de México, 2016

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Process for the location of a silhouette made of a mirror in Neza, one of the municipalities with the highest number of cases of femicide in Estado de México (2016).

© Sonia Madrigal - March and public demonstration on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25N. Chimalhuacán, 2017
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March and public demonstration on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25N. Chimalhuacán, 2017

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Placing pink wooden crosses an initiative of activist Irinea Buendía and mother of Mariana Lima Buendía, victim of feminicide in Chimalhuacán in 2010. Estado de México, 2015

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Process of placing pink wooden crosses an initiative of activist Irinea Buendía and mother of Mariana Lima Buendía, victim of feminicide in Chimalhuacán in 2010. Estado de México, 2016

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Process of placing pink wooden crosses an initiative of activist Irinea Buendía and mother of Mariana Lima Buendía, victim of feminicide in Chimalhuacán in 2010. Estado de México, 2016

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Location of a silhouette made of a mirror in Chimalhuacán, one of the municipalities with the highest number of cases of femicide in Estado de México (2016).

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Location of a silhouette made of a mirror in Chimalhuacán, one of the municipalities with the highest number of cases of femicide in Estado de México (2016).

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Location of a silhouette made of a mirror in Chimalhuacán, one of the municipalities with the highest number of cases of femicide in Estado de México (2016).

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Location of a silhouette made of a mirror in Chimalhuacán, one of the municipalities with the highest number of cases of femicide in Estado de México (2015).

© Sonia Madrigal - Image from the La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East photography project
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Location of a silhouette made of a mirror in Cd. Nezahualcóyotl, one of the municipalities with the highest number of cases of femicide in Estado de México (2015).

La muerte sale por el Oriente / Death comes from the East by Sonia Madrigal

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