Pictorial Exposition of Women in the Mexican Revolution
"Adelitas", women soldiers and coronels make up the collective exposition “Women in the Revolution”, which is being exhibited at the Regional Museum of Art, and which offers a different vision of this historic event that marked the history of the country.
It consists of 27 women artists that share their proposals in which men are not the main characters, but still shape with beauty, love, and humor the visions, ideals and nostalgias of these brave women who are dreamers and who enriched the revolutionary iconography with a new mythical face.
The exposition is made up of 30 pieces made with diverse tecniques, like óleum, acrilic, water colors, graphite, tapestry, engravings, or mixed media, and include two projects of the mural by Javier Padilla and Alejandro Quijano.
In the same way, the audience will be able to see a playful curtain where they will be able to put their face with a revolutionary woman dress, from Celso Zubire; a revolutionary Frida by Francisco Rodríguez, or a participant of the armed movement with her lover.
The mayority of peasant women enlist in militias in their place of origin while following their fathers, brothers, or husbands, by their own will or under the old "leva" system or military recruitment.
Kidnapping and rape were acts of violence that women suffered in this period of ilegal forces and in the name of different factions. Many stories tell of sexual abuse.
Incorporated in different revolutionary groups, the women soldiers participated in different ways; doing household chores, like always, but in times of war in the middle of the most adverse conditions, traveling from place to place.
The pictorial exposition “Women in the Revolution”, is being presented in the Regional Museum of Azcapotzalco, located in the Hacienda del Rosario until August 15. The entrance is free.
