This poster is part of the exhibition "Women's Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-Based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination" at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from January 17 - May 17, 2025

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, WorkShop Gallery

The poster was designed for conferences on indigenous women and violence. The red beads necklace is an essential feature of female attires of several indigenous groups in Ecuador. The necklace expresses the feminine essence and whole cultural baggage and identity that has resisted the homogenizing changes of modernity. In that sense, it can be appreciated as a resistance element. The broken and scattered necklace intends to denounce the physical act of violence suffered by indigenous women and the social and cultural implications this entails: contempt and damage to identities and ancestral knowledge.