| dbo:abstract
|
- On the afternoon of 25 September 2021, a group of anonymous feminists intervened the Christopher Columbus roundabout on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue. On an empty plinth surrounded by protective fences, they installed a wooden antimonumenta, a guerrilla sculpture that calls for justice for the recurrent acts of violence against women in Mexico. It was named Antimonumenta Vivas Nos Queremos (lit. transl. Anti-monument We Want Us Alive) and depicts a purple woman holding her arm raised and with a support on the back that has the word justice carved on it. Additionally, the Columbus roundabout was also symbolically renamed the Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan (Roundabout of the Women Who Fight). The traffic circle formerly honored Columbus with a statue sculpted by the French artist Charles Cordier, which was installed in 1887. The government of Mexico City, led by mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, removed it from the pedestal prior to an anti-Columbus Day demonstration in 2020 under the premise of restoration. Months later, Sheinbaum informed that the statue would not be returned to its original site and that following a request from 5,000 indigenous women to decolonize the avenue, a monument would be installed to honor them. The project was named Tlalli and proposed a sculpture created by a non-indigenous male artist who drew inspiration from the existing Olmec colossal heads, all of which depict men. Feminists objected to the proposal because they considered that the author was not the person indicated to honor indigenous women and a few days later they installed their own design on the plinth. Originally, Antimonumenta Vivas Nos Queremos was not intended to be permanent, with the installers reporting that while the sculpture design could be chosen by the city, the traffic circle should be officially renamed to their proposed name. Since its placement, feminists have organized cultural events at the roundabout to honor all the women who they describe as fighters and men who fight for them and have had their names memorialized on the protective fences, installed a clothesline to denounce the injustices that they have received from authorities and society, and replaced the original woodwork with a steel one. Sheinbaum, on the other hand, has commented that it is seeking to officially replace the Monument to Columbus with a replica of The Young Woman of Amajac, a Huastec sculpture, and thus relocate the Vivas Nos Queremos anti-monument to another place, an action to which feminists are opposed unless their demands are met. (en)
- La glorieta de las mujeres que luchan es una antimonumenta temporal instalada en honor a las madres que exigen justicia por sus hijas, víctimas de feminicidio en México. Colectivos feministas lo instalaron el 25 de septiembre de 2021. Se encuentra ubicada donde anteriormente se encontraba el monumento de Cristóbal Colón, en la Avenida Paseo de la Reforma, en Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México. (es)
|
| rdfs:comment
|
- La glorieta de las mujeres que luchan es una antimonumenta temporal instalada en honor a las madres que exigen justicia por sus hijas, víctimas de feminicidio en México. Colectivos feministas lo instalaron el 25 de septiembre de 2021. Se encuentra ubicada donde anteriormente se encontraba el monumento de Cristóbal Colón, en la Avenida Paseo de la Reforma, en Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México. (es)
- On the afternoon of 25 September 2021, a group of anonymous feminists intervened the Christopher Columbus roundabout on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue. On an empty plinth surrounded by protective fences, they installed a wooden antimonumenta, a guerrilla sculpture that calls for justice for the recurrent acts of violence against women in Mexico. It was named Antimonumenta Vivas Nos Queremos (lit. transl. Anti-monument We Want Us Alive) and depicts a purple woman holding her arm raised and with a support on the back that has the word justice carved on it. Additionally, the Columbus roundabout was also symbolically renamed the Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan (Roundabout of the Women Who Fight). (en)
|
