#Ingrid
[ed. RVB BOOKS & Gato Negro Ediciones]
On February 9, 2020 in Mexico City, a 25-year-old woman named Ingrid E. V. was murdered by her companion. Grisly photographs of this femicide committed by Erik Francisco Robledo Rosas, taken at the scene of the crime by the authorities, were avidly circulated by Mexican tabloids, which had no qualms in plastering the young woman’s dismembered body across their front pages. This opportunistic move by the gutter press, and the complicity of the police in making it possible, sparked a wave of protests. Spurred by a tweet to do their part in ridding the internet of these gruesome images, social media users around the world posted numerous photos of peaceful lakes, sunsets, fields of flowers and other scenes of natural beauty under the hashtag #IngridEscamillaVargas. In close collaboration with Delia who initiated this collective online response and with the Mexican independent publishing house Gato Negro Ediciones, Zoé Aubry, who has been working on the systemic and structural phenomenon of femicides and the issues raised by their media coverage since 2017, produced a book that pays homage to the memory of Ingrid Escamilla Vargas, denounces violence against womxn, and assails the voyeurism of a certain segment of the press.
These images are not addressed to us, but are present and diffused to make others disappear. For her installation, Zoé Aubry has gathered the images that were posted during the weeks that followed the murder as part of this collective movement aimed at producing invisibility by exploiting algorithms. She places them all in the foreground of her installation in such a way as to cover up a pixelated cyanotype of one of the crime-scene images that were published in the tabloids. To extend this work of struggle and demand into the public space, she invites everyone to make these images visible throughout the city in a participatory postering campaign. This continuous flow of photographs — with subtle variations, repetitions, and quotations inherent to the #Ingrid movement itself — refuses the voyeurism incited by images of violence and exemplifies the use of the image as a weapon against mediatization and government as well as police corruption.
On February 9, 2020 in Mexico City, a 25-year-old woman named Ingrid E. V. was murdered by her companion. Grisly photographs of this femicide committed by Erik Francisco Robledo Rosas, taken at the scene of the crime by the authorities, were avidly circulated by Mexican tabloids, which had no qualms in plastering the young woman’s dismembered body across their front pages. This opportunistic move by the gutter press, and the complicity of the police in making it possible, sparked a wave of protests. Spurred by a tweet to do their part in ridding the internet of these gruesome images, social media users around the world posted numerous photos of peaceful lakes, sunsets, fields of flowers and other scenes of natural beauty under the hashtag #IngridEscamillaVargas. In close collaboration with Delia who initiated this collective online response and with the Mexican independent publishing house Gato Negro Ediciones, Zoé Aubry, who has been working on the systemic and structural phenomenon of femicides and the issues raised by their media coverage since 2017, produced a book that pays homage to the memory of Ingrid Escamilla Vargas, denounces violence against womxn, and assails the voyeurism of a certain segment of the press.
These images are not addressed to us, but are present and diffused to make others disappear. For her installation, Zoé Aubry has gathered the images that were posted during the weeks that followed the murder as part of this collective movement aimed at producing invisibility by exploiting algorithms. She places them all in the foreground of her installation in such a way as to cover up a pixelated cyanotype of one of the crime-scene images that were published in the tabloids. To extend this work of struggle and demand into the public space, she invites everyone to make these images visible throughout the city in a participatory postering campaign. This continuous flow of photographs — with subtle variations, repetitions, and quotations inherent to the #Ingrid movement itself — refuses the voyeurism incited by images of violence and exemplifies the use of the image as a weapon against mediatization and government as well as police corruption.
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“For when the search for your Name, they will find Flowers” Doris Gassert
Tique · publication on contemporary art
The Best Photo Books from Les Rencontres d’Arles 2022, AnOther
How the Reaction to a Young Woman’s Murder Sparked Change in Mexico, Elephant.Art [Words by Kate Neave]
#Ingrid, une arme visuelle pour combattre les féminicides, Vertigo, RTS
Avec"#Ingrid", Zoé Aubry questionne la représentation médiatique d’un féminicide, RTS
Féminicide: quand l’image devient une arme numérique, Quotidien Jurassien
Talks
The Artist Talks by The Eyes — currated by Véronique Prugnaud, Paris Photo
« Photobooks about body, power and critical approach to feminism », with Tara Ulmann, Roxana Savin and Sarah Girard, Photobooks Switzerland, Photoforum Pasquart — currated by Anastasia Mityukova and Jana Johanna Haeckel
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