Article
Spanish
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Abstract
This work establishes a link between gender and representation to examine the modern-colonial substrate of an epistaemic eye that tends to invisibilise the knowledge produced by women and to cancel their role as cognoscents. To discuss the matter, we analysed the representation built by the exhibition ‘Feminicidio in Mexico’ (2017) of the Museum of Memoria and Tolerancia in Mexico City, on a group of women activists from the urban periphery. That approach makes it easier to see how the curatorial use of a set of photographs triggered an epistaemic injustice that excluded the voices of these women from the field of knowledge/power formed by the exhibition. Thus, the article proposes that the collective recognition of the value of women’s lives, in the Mexican context of feminicide violence, lies in the ways in which these lives are told and recognised, publicly, from what their action and word reveals.