Antimonumenta, Memorial sculpture in Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Antimonumenta is a 3.8-meter-tall, 300-kilogram metal sculpture on the Plaza de Armas in Guadalajara's historic center. It is painted purple and pink and shaped like the Venus symbol with a raised fist in the center. Its upper part bears the pink capital letters 'Ni perdón ni olvido' (Neither forgive nor forget), with 'No + feminicidios' on the arm and 'Memoria, verdad y justicia' and 'Ni una más' on the other sides.
Feminists installed the Antimonumenta on 25 November 2020, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, during the annual march in Guadalajara. That year, 230 women were killed in Mexico between January and September, 39 investigated as femicides. The same day, a red bench was placed before the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres, and the plaza was symbolically renamed Plaza Imelda Virgen after an academic killed in 2012.
The installers symbolically renamed Plaza de Armas "Plaza Imelda Virgen", after Imelda Josefina Virgen Rodríguez, an academic and the first woman killed in Jalisco after femicide was made a crime there in 2012. On 8 March 2021, women sang "Canción sin miedo" beside the sculpture during the International Women's Day march.
The sculpture sits on a public plaza in the city center and is easily accessible to visitors. The location remains open and can be visited at any time.
The purple of the Antimonumenta follows the feminist convention that purple stands for loyalty and firmness toward a cause, as its installers explained. The 3.8 m, 300 kg metal piece was placed on 25 November 2020, the same day feminists symbolically renamed Plaza de Armas "Plaza Imelda Virgen" after an academic killed in Jalisco in 2012.
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