Naming the Rose : An Interactive Installation Dedicated to the Girls and Women Victims of Juarez

View Within Three Clotheslines

The eleven garments hung upside down in the configuration of clotheslines, a ubiquitous feature in the barrios of Mexico . The various garments were chosen to represent the age span of victims from six days old to 91 years of age. Most of the victims were in their late teens and early twenties. The fabric and print in each garment had shades of pink like the crosses erected throughout the Juarez region wherever the victim's bodies were recovered. No longer for the living, the garments were coated in layers of encaustic wax, white like the funerary candles that change form but not their essence.

The Anne T. Kmieck Gallery