An exhibition of new work by 200 artists responding to the widespread murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The artists include Tracey Emin, Kathy Lomax, Nicholas Charles Williams, Maggi Hambling and Humphrey Ocean.
The project was conceived by artist Tamsyn Challenger in response to the brutal murder and rape of more than 400 women over a decade in the US border town of Ciudad Juárez and the region of Chihuahua in Mexico. "200 artists have each painted one of the murdered women, confronting us with and safeguarding in our memory the dead and disappeared". The exhibition is curated by Ellen Mara De Wachter, a writer and curator at 176, the project space of the Zabludowicz Collection, London.
Ashton is exhibiting the embroidered name of Yolanda Alvarez Esquihua who was killed on the 3rd of May 1993 aged 28.
12 November - 5 December 2010
Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, 380 Old Street, London
For further information contact Ellen Mara De Wachter or Tamsyn Challenger. Email: 400woman@googlemail.com