For Vida no Vivida de un Corazón (Unlived Life of a Heart), artist Inés Somellera creates, in each print, a lacework of stars and constellations to accompany Coyolxauhqui on her path toward healing. In Mexica mythology, Coyolxauhqui was the moon goddess, daughter of Coatlicue and sister of Huitzilopochtli, the god of war, who was responsible for her dismemberment. A complex story of vengeance and gender violence that resonates from ancestral cultures into the present.

Based between Indonesia and Mexico, Somellera produced these prints on the island of Bali during full moon nights. Through the gesture of connecting points into soft forms and holding the body’s limbs together with constellations, she re-links the fragmented parts of Coyolxauhqui through an energetic and contemplative practice she developed in Asia. Her search is to hold Coyolxauhqui’s body while witnessing the visible expression of pain, and at the same time to approach feminine wisdom, an axis that also runs through her Re[Membrar] project. In this series, Somellera lifts layers of traces from the violated body to reveal, through an intuitive process, the mystery that maps pain.