It started with the killing of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla, who was murdered and mutilated by her boyfriend in February 2020. The brutality of the murder – and the leaking of explicit images of her body to tabloid newspapers – touched off a national furor.
Escamilla’s murder struck artist María Antonieta De la Rosa with both horror and disgust. Even in a country where more than 10 women on average were being killed every day, it felt especially cruel. “You realize how permeating this violence is,” she said. “It’s normalized in every direction.”
