It is an installation comprising twelve icons placed on top of a plexiglass ring to form a clock with a diameter of 230 cm. At the centre is a digital counter stuck at zero.
According to global statistics, one woman dies as a result of femicide every 10 minutes, and to represent this fact, every 10 minutes, a light will illuminate an icon from behind for a few seconds. The icons will light up in rotation to mark the passing of time.
There is no figure updated in real time on the number of femicides committed worldwide, despite calls from many organisations for one. The artwork asks why.
The installation forms part of the Sacred Vulva project. The icons are created using the traditional technique of Byzantine sacred icons to reinforce the concept of the sacredness of the vulva, the earliest traces of which date back 40,000 years and continue into what the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas calls ‘Old Europe’. I address modern man through installations centred on social issues. I draw on the roots of that past culture in order to suggest a new vision of the future. The project is an expression of my commitment to the recovery of the Sacred Feminine within our patriarchal society.
