Las Muertes Chiquitas

The interdisciplinary project entitled "Las Muertes Chiquitas" is the result of four year’s work carried out by Mireia Sallarès. The project’s epicentre is a documentary featuring interviews or conversations with over 30 women in various parts of Mexico; women of several ages, from different social classes, and various professions and religions.
These conversations conform a striking documentary in great depth, which the artist complements with a book written in the first person which continues to build the dialogues.

"The female orgasm, "las muertes chiquitas", shared or alone, erotic or frustrated, these are the starting point to establish public and private, erotic and political connections. The most intimate part of sexuality lies on the stage of public pleasure, of eroticism construed and starting from several means of ideological, religious, cultural movement and control"1. This is a project which provokes thought on the political condition of being women from the viewpoint of pleasure, armed struggle, trans-sexuality, prostitution, sickness, exile and the theology of liberation, femicide and ethical commitment.

Materials:
Mexican paper cutting (handmade); black marble-like card 420 g.

The piece has been handcrafted in Mexico by artisan Miguel Santibáñez.
Includes text written by the artist and a certificate of authenticity.

First edition of 50