Evelyn Rozas Erbo

Rozas Erbo is an artist from Concepción, Chile. In her project “Relatos Mestizos” (2019), she worked with female pottery makers from the towns of Quinchamalí and Chillán, a region where the production of black representational figures remains active since the colonial period. There, she explored the techniques, styles and heritage constructions behind the most iconic pottery designs, using her findings as inspiration for her own artworks. 

Las Tres Gracias  2019

Pottery

Las Tres Gracias is a reaction to Paul Ruben’s baroque painting The Three Graces. This series of four sculptures is inspired by La Guitarrera, a Quinchamali figure that has become an icon of those who fled Pinochet’s dictatorship, as well as a symbol of women’s resilience and struggle for justice amidst social inequality.

Las Tres Gracias questions the idealisation of women in the European baroque, when females were presented as charming, beautiful, and loving. Instead, Rozas’ graces are carrying items that represent women’s contemporary struggles in Chile and throughout Latin America: uncontrolled development, consumerism, subordination, and the lack of political voice. The woman-military is wearing a helmet to represent past and present dictatorship, the woman-consumer is wearing a dress made of chains to represent the trap of neoliberalism, the woman-house has her head replaced by a building to illustrate imposed domesticity, and the woman-activist is wearing a gas-mask to represent the violence shown by the military during protest.

Publications related to women’s and maternal health with Wixárika communities by the author of this exhibition

 

Gamlin, Jennie B. (2013)
Shame as a barrier to health seeking among indigenous Huichol migrant labourers: An interpretive approach of the “violence continuum” and “authoritative knowledge”
Social Science and Medicine 97 75-81

Gamlin, Jennie B. (2023)
Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene
Medical Anthropology Theory 10 (2) 1-26

Gamlin, Jennie B. (2020)
“You see, we women, we can’t talk, we can’t have an opinion…”. The coloniality of gender and childbirth practices in Indigenous Wixárika families
Social Science and Medicine 252, 112912

Jennie Gamlin and David Osrin (2020)
Preventable infant deaths, lone births and lack of registration in Mexican indigenous communities: health care services and the afterlife of colonialism
Ethnicity and Health 25 (7)

Jennie Gamlin and Seth Holmes (2018)
Preventable perinatal deaths in indigenous Wixárika communities: an ethnographic study of pregnancy, childbirth and structural violence BMC
Pregnancy and Childbirth 18 (Article number 243) 2018

Gamlin, Jennie B. and Sarah J Hawkes (2015)
Pregnancy and birth in an Indigenous Huichol community: from structural violence to structural policy responses
Culture, health and sexuality 17 (1)

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