Gold Award Winner 2020

Nuestra Victoria, Our Victory, Julieta Gil (Mexico)

Nuestra Victoria, Our Victory, is a work that derives from a meticulous documentation of the Angel of Independence, a landmark of Mexico City, after protests against systemic violence towards women erupted last August, 2019. By using a 3D capturing technique called photogrammetry, the project intends to create a digital archive of the monument in its state of occupation by civil society. Hours after the protest, government censorship prevented people from seeing the Angel of Independence by boarding it up and immediately working on its restoration, thus erasing all the claims against violence that were posted by women all over the monument. This work allows the words and actions of protest to remain in our collective memory.