The divine in mass graves: Transient Lithospheres above Mexican femicide

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1 Amnesty International, ‘Mexico: Failings in Investigations of Feminicides in the State of Mexico Violate Women’s Rights to Life, Physical Safety and Access to Justice’, shorturl.at/abBKV (2021), accessed 18 April 2023.

2 D. Abate et al., ‘Optimizing Search Strategies in Mass Grave Location through the Combination of Digital Technologies’, Forensic Science International: Synergy 1 (2019), 95–107.

3 Mary Flanagan, Critical Play: Radical Game Design (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009), 73.

4 Ibid., 5.

5 Eric Venbrux, ‘Robert Hertz’s Seminal Essay and Mortuary Rites in the Pacific Region’, Journal de la Société des Océanistes 1 (2007), 8.

6 Graeme Sullivan, Arts Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts (London: Sage Publications, 2005), 74.

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Helen Blejerman

Helen Blejerman is a Mexican artist based in the UK. She has worked as an associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Fine Art Department, since 2008. Through research and in her art practice, she has explored the connection between loss, landscape and the spiritual for almost a decade. Since 2021 she has been working on a practice-based PhD focusing on the religious beliefs in burial practices around femicide and the vital force of nature in clandestine burial sites. Her latest works and films include The Luminous Mysteries (2021), Soil and Soul (2020), The Soil Where Women Disappear (2020) and the solo exhibition ‘For Whom the Mountains Pray’ (2023).