veias/ venas/ veins/ veines, 2015

"Venas/ Veias/ Veins/ Veines" is a large-scale installation that was selected for and exhibited in the curated space of the Zona Maco art fair. The room's walls were painted red, and the flags of the countries of the so-called Latin America were made from red fabric and yarn, with the embroidered sections left unfinished. An additional long, red, blank flag was included, bringing the total to 43 flags. In 2014, a few months before the installation was conceived and later displayed in Mexico City, 43 students and political activists, mainly from peasant backgrounds, disappeared in the region of Ayotzinapa in Mexico, and their bodies were never recovered, except for a few remains of three individuals. During the art fair, the case was under judicial proceedings. The installation's title references Eduardo Galeano’s book “The Open Veins of Latin America”.