1998 (Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara and Galería Azul, Guadalajara)

This installation is a satirical response to the ways in which women’s sexuality and intellectual ability is downplayed or used as a discourse to incite fear in times of political and social crisis. At the time the city of Guadalajara was embroiled in a public debate regarding the control of the sex trade. The government and conservative sectors were supporting a campaign to regulate prostitution. The debate bled into the disciplining of women’s sexual behavior in various levels of society. Not only did the government proposed to create a red district, but they prohibited women in governmental posts to use mini skirts or revealing clothes.  Simultaneously a luxurious and private strip bar, The Men's Club, opened its doors in a nice neighborhood of the city. The majority of the members of the club belonged to the conservative sectors that aimed at regulating prostitution and women’s dress.(Bronze cast of half a brain with spider legs suspended on a plexigalass base that hangs form the ceiling over a series of gourds).

* The spanish word for gourd is Bule . In vernacular spanish it also means strip-bar.