El rojo es por vida, no por sangre
Red is for life, not for blood
Light, sound and sensory piece · web cartography · 2026
Render
In the Pride flag, red stands for life.
What almost never appears in a police report is the life of the person who suffered it. This piece starts from that absence.
The work draws on open data from Visible, the platform run by AMICUS that documents prejudice-motivated violence against LGBTQ+ people in Mexico.
It has two parts. A light box on a steel base holds a hand behind the acrylic: the window of a community asking for help. Up close, you feel a heartbeat and hear the data turned into sound.
The second is a web cartography that maps the records across Mexico City, turns each attack into sound and also makes the missing information visible. The piece engages with Judith Butler’s idea of precarious life: lives whose loss is not recorded or mourned in the same way.
- Year
- 2026
- Medium
- Black acrylic box, 50 × 50 × 50 cm, aluminum corner cubes, steel tube base, LED, sound and heartbeat; web cartography
- Data
- Visible (AMICUS), CC BY 4.0; includes Letra Ese records, 2015–2022
- Shown at
- Querétaro (tbc) · Intersecciones conference, Guadalajara, November 2026
- Context
- Thesis project, Master’s in Digital Art and New Media, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Cartography
Every recorded attack makes a sound; every gap in the records becomes visible too. The map is the part of the work anyone can visit from anywhere.
Open the cartography
