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Tracy Emin takes part in exhibition to commemorate Mexico’s vanished women

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Artists – including former enfant terrible Tracy Emin and Paula Rego – have taken part in an exhibition commemorating the thousands of women who have been murdered or ‘vanished’ in the US border town of Ciudad Juárez, The Guardian reports.

The exhibition includes the work of more than 200 artists. Each artist was given a photograph or name of one of the 3,000-plus women “who has fallen victim to drug or organ trading-related killings, or domestic violence, over the past 15 years.”

Some of the exhibition works are based on Amnesty International photographs, the support group May Our Daughters Return Home, and the Esther Chavez Collection. Chavez was a Mexican women’s rights activist. The exhibition also includes works based on forensic accounts of the murders.

In 2006 the Mexican government dropped its investigations into the killings, concluding that “no federal laws had been violated.”

The exhibition, entitled ‘400 Women’ is at Shoreditch Town Hall (see WVoN story). The photograph accompanying this article is from Amnesty International, and each handmade cross represents a murdered woman in either Mexico or Guatemala.

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