Think of the most terrifying monster of all time, the most famous.
Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Shoulder, the Headless Horseman, Freddy Krueger, maybe?
The most terrifying monster for the illustrator Viridiana Montiel (Mexico City, 33 years old) is the pedophile clown, the hairy hand of the subway or the
allied
wolf
onvre
.
They may not be the protagonists of novels or movies, but every day they terrorize hundreds of victims in the real world.
For the illustrator, the machismo that unites them makes society an unsafe place where being a woman becomes very complicated.
"I was surprised that we normalize these violence and figures of machismo that are in our lives on a daily basis, sometimes in a more obvious way like when they harass you in the subway and sometimes in a more subtle way, like when you have someone who makes fun of you. body, "says Viridiana Montiel.
His project 'The monsters of the patriarchy', portrays the violence that women often experience every day.
"Some women feel identified with the drawings even when they did not know what was happening to them," says Montiel.
For example,
gaslighting
, a strategy of manipulation and psychological abuse that consists of disqualifying the perception of the other until making the victim doubt their own sanity.
According to the universe created by Viridiana Montiel, someone who does that is called
Frankenslighter
.
As in other exercises from comedy and humor, such as the case of 'El Tomás', the character of the
tiktoker
Herly, the work of the monsters of patriarchy puts in front of the mirror the worst macho and misogynistic attitudes of many men.
The surprise appears when these monsters are not alien to the daily life of women and are represented by friends, family, acquaintances, men who define themselves as allies or coworkers.
"This project was a way of letting go of all that happens to many women. I began to reflect on all the violent attitudes that I have experienced in my life and it turns out that I had normalized them, I never stopped them. [The project] for me It has been very liberating. It's like my mini-revenge for the patriarchy, exposing all its monsters, "says Montiel.
We bring you a selection of some of them:
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