Rosa Mexicano

The expression “Rosa Mexicano” was used in Mexico since the 1950s and has now been adopted as the representative color for the Mexican nation and its identity. On a visual level, it is thought to be an inalienable expressive symbol in works like the serene walls of architects like Luis Barragan and Ricardo Legorreta, just as much as in the paintings of Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. This color has been later adopted as the symbol of commemoration and protest by the mothers and relatives of the Martyrs of Juarez City in the state of Chihuahua and women murdered and kidnapped all over Mexico.

In this series of small-scale oil paintings, I wanted to use this symbolic color as a form of celebrating the female strength and resilience women all over the world have to generate in order to survive and thrive in our contemporary social context of inequality.

Rosa Mexicano

Portraits

Small Works