Silhouettes

Silhouettes is a suspended and floor-based work that remembers and commemorate people who have been abducted by Government or insurgent guerillas over a particularly tumultuous number of decades in Peru's history.Esquives pays special attention to suspended fabric silhouettes, decorating them in the Peruvian folkloric style of religious costumes. With her glistening, delicate and detailed textures and patterns, she honours all of those people who have simply 'disappeared.' When a person disappears in Peru (and indeed, South America), they are stripped of their identity and given a number.With Silhouettes, Esquives, allows us to reject that form of violence and recognise that all of the disappearing people are loved as mother, father, brother, sister, son or daughter. Raquel has poignantly highlighted the generational impact of the abductions as a woman, now a 'silhouette,' is carrying her baby at the moment of her disappearance.

This project started in 2013. For the complexity of the work, the time required for every artwork and the fact that this people still disappear this project is ongoing till now 2021. The artist have the compromise to make at least one silhouette per year till she can do it.