MEXICO CITY.- On September 20th Galería de Arte Mexicano will be opening "Because You Are a Girl", within the framework of Gallery Weekend. For this exhibition Eugenia has developed a collective piece, produced by inviting women to share phrases about a series of posters that address gender as a main theme.

Born in Monterrey and educated in economics and sociology, both decisive for her artistic practice, Eugenia Martínez has oriented her work to the Mexican portrait in the last fifteen years of her artistic career. Her project began by addressing the colonial era and social structures that prevail since that time. In the last six years she has used photography found at flea markets as a medium for his portraits, with the purpose of making a journey through the social fracture between the Mexican social groups public discourse and their true thoughts.

Her work is a testimony of social inequality; his portraits are enriched by metaphorical and reiterative texts that create a kind of halo of prejudices that often seems impenetrable and due to the obsessive repetition of phrases taken from literature as well as popular sayings and songs, exposes the contradictions and incongruities on which our country has been culturally constructed.

According to her, the visual is central in the construction of identity and, therefore, plays a decisive role in society. With this in mind, she addresses issues of gender, racism and classism through this conjugation between the image as a sensitive support as well as a tool of enunciation, and the word repeated in an hypnotizing way invoke those prejudices that lie behind cultural symbols.

Octavio Avendaño Trujillo, curator of her upcoming exhibition, says:
"Eugenia Martínez's art has a critical impact on the construction of visual culture from an anthropological perspective. How is it that we can currently think about the circulation of images without their political connotations? Because You Are a Girl is the title of Martínez's most recent exhibition in which she questions the construction of what is consider feminine since its most ancient representations like the Venus of Willendorf, in which and since then, the representation of women is reduced to the objectification of a life generator entity, which does not hear, does not see and does not speak. TheVenus of Willendorf is considered one of the first artistic expressions that already glimpse the symbolic construction of patriarchy. “