Chapter IV: Everything except the wings around my face is red

“I get up out of the chair, advance my feet into the sunlight, in their red shoes, flat-heeled to save the spine and not for dancing. The red gloves are lying on the bed. I pick them up, pull them onto my hands, finger by finger. Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us.”

– Extract from The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Love. Passion. Blood. Pain. Risk. Violence. Desire. Fire. A symbol of human vitality.

We zoom in on a colour with a history of universal symbolism, red, and embark on a creative journey in the construction of an exquisite corpse that transports us from home to home. A Casa Exquisita.

A group of Mexicans between 25 and 39 years old, professionals and students from the cultural sector, located in Mexico, Spain and the United States, who responded to an open call to participate through the Contigo en la Distancia programme by the Mexican Secretary of Culture.

Juan Carlos Torija Maldonado (Mexico)
Diego Castro (Mexico)
Ricardo García (Mexico)
Manuel Parra (Spain)
Pamela Hersch (USA)