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TREATISE ON INSTANTS
2015
MISSION
Through several artistic resources, we aim to provide assistance to people in a state of social and physical vulnerability, as well as people who are disadvantaged or discriminated against.
By means of artistic activities, we aim to open a dialogue on these issues so people can express themselves and rebuild a pathway leading to catharsis and the coping mechanisms needed to deal with social, cultural, and health matters, by promoting human and social development.
Our projects allow us to turn our groups’ weaknesses into the strength they need to build and stoke their inner fire. We create, exhibit, and develop in close collaboration with professional artists, both during the process and in the final pieces.
VISION
Anima-Ars is formed by a group of young people who join different professional and social circles in order to create and complement a comprehensive project that endeavors to assist the physically, psychologically, and socially vulnerable through fine arts.
The value of the project rests on the collaboration between artists from different disciplines, joining forces within a specific group in order to create and explore new and transcendental visions that sensitize the spectator to the issues at hand, while stressing the essential role of art in our lives and well-being.
PROJECT
Treatise on Instants is born out of the need to teach a group of girls and teenagers rescued from sexual slavery and forced labor to express themselves through images. It represents a possibility to give back to these women some of what they’ve lost, since despite having been rescued, they still live in a shelter and the social reintegration process is long. We strive to have this experience help them gain back the identity that was stolen from them. What makes us who we are? Is it our bodies? Our thoughts? The way we see things?
We held a course for them on the theory and practice of photography, where they learned the fundamentals of photography, its importance through the years, its main exponents, as well as different methods and styles. Each of the girls was given a 35mm camera, and they also practiced collage, photo-montage, and with professional cameras.
As they are underage and still undergoing legal processes, it is forbidden to take pictures of their faces so as to protect them until they reach legal age. These guidelines shaped the project: a faceless self-portrait.
Each one of the girls and young women of the shelter documented different aspects of their lives in 35mm.
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
COLLAGE
Words, atmospheres, and feelings by means of light, keeping the anonymity of their faces, as they are minors still involved in criminal investigations.
LIGHT PAINTING
“I want to walk on the beach”
A.13 years old
POSSIBLE SCENARIO
“I would like to see a meteor shower”
L.17 years old
“In a house in Cuernavaca”
A.11 years old
POSSIBLE SCENARIO
“Living in a cake”
G14 years old
“Singing on a stage in India”
B.15 years old
POSSIBLE SCENARIO
“In the beach”
G17 years old
“In Alaska, in an igloo”
I.17 years old
POSSIBLE SCENARIO
“At a club”
G17 years old
“At the waterfalls near my home”
B.17 years old
POSSIBLE SCENARIO
A new treatise emerges as they make these reconstructions that will shape their self-portrait: a visual treatise of the feelings, moments, dreams, metaphors, and hidden faces of all these girls and teenagers. The final pieces are the product of collaboration between photographer Alexis Juárez, cinematographer Jimena Montemayor Loyo, and the students who also switched tasks in make-up, costume, lighting, and props.
PORTRAITS
17 photographs de 90x60
“Treatise on Instants”
PORTRAITS
“I DON´T WANT TO BE HERE” KARLA 10 YEARS OLD
PORTRAITS
MY HEAD IS ALWAYS GOING IN CIRCLES.17 YEARS OLD
PORTRAITS
ANDY. 10 AÑOS
PORTRAITS
“I DON´T WANT TO GO BACK HOME” CINTHIA.13 YEARS OLD
PORTRAITS
“I LIKE FIGHTING, SINGING AND DANCING” .14 YEARS OLD
PORTRAITS
“I STOP THINKING WHEN I COOK, I LIKE IT” BLANCA.17 YEARS OLD
PORTRAITS
ANA K. 10 YEARS OLD “I DONT WANT TO GO BACK TO MY DAD”
PORTRAITS
ALEX .16 YEARS OLD “I´D LIKE TO BE ON THE BEACH PLAYING WITH MY DAUGHTER”
PORTRAITS
LETY .16 YEARS OLD “I WANT TO WRITE POETRY AND LOVE STORIES... LIKE TWILIGHT”
PORTRAITS
“LIKE A WALL YOU CAN´T BREAK INTO”. GABY 14 YEARS OLD
PORTRAITS
“I DON´T WANT TO GO TO JAIL”
PORTRAITS
“BE LIKE A LION” MARÍA 18 YEARS OLD
PORTRAITS
BELA. 16 YEARS OLD “I IMAGINE LOTS OF THINGS AND PLACES”
Our goal is to bring “Treatise on Instants” to three other shelters: one of them in Tijuana, and two more in Mexico City.
La Casa del Jardín (The Garden House): Comprehensive care center for victims of human trafficking, part of the International Network of Hearts.
La Fundación Camino a Casa (The Back to Home Foundation): Aims to provide assistance and restoration of girls and teenagers who have been victims of child, sexual, and commercial exploitation.
Casa Xochiquetzal (Xochiquetzal House): Created in 2006 to respond to the needs of elderly sexual workers who have been shunned by society and their own families despite having been victims of sex trafficking.
FUTURE PROJECTS
PROMOTION
We will mount an open exhibition with the results of the work done, as well as publish a book containing the photographs and texts of the participants.
Through this, we aim also to raise awareness of this issue, by sensitizing groups fortunate enough to have lived a different story. We hope that our work will have a meaningful impact, whether in terms of participation, search, or filing reports on this pressing reality that takes place in our country and around the world.
It’s vital that we find ways of providing assistance to victims of this criminal phenomenon if we are to repair the fabric of society, and art is the ideal catalyst to do so effectively.
EXHIBITION
THANKS
