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

“New forms of slavery” was designed for an academic conference on labor inequality. Labor exploitation suffered by the weak—especially poor women and girls—results from rigid and outdated social and cultural structures that remain effective in Latin America, such as patriarchal structures and the prevailing machismo. The central image is a barefoot girl carrying a text of heavy characters on her back that forces her to bend down. The fact that the burden of the child is precisely the poster's title suggests that, beyond the physical load of the objects these women have to transport to survive, there are prejudices and outmoded ideologies that are heavier and more difficult to be free of.