Mexico's Disappeared Emojis

What does it mean to grieve endlessly, when a body, the pure essence and recognition of someone in this world has been perpetrated, erased or tortured? When did words like rights, truth and critical information were highjacked from our dictionaries leaving behind, a now, meaningless text? Will our forests be depleted soon, our riches, monopolised?

The fight against obsolescence is brutal in the actual Mexican scenario. As impune actions, disappeared or murdered bodies keep piling up everyday, it’s hard to fathom the meaning and the ethical response of any society must have against these violent acts.

This project intends to fight immediacy oblivion by developing emojis for the actual Mexican scenario. With the constant use of these small, digital images through mobile devices and social media, a certain resistance can be created.

Ultimately, in the same way Shigetaka Kurita (emoji creator) unknowingly created these not only as a response to ordinary things, emotions and common activities, this project also pursues the ability to generate a new alphabet by the “externalisation of internal images“, ones that will try to solidarize for brief moments, the soul of the fragmented Mexican society.

[Website of the project] [Opening tomorrow @ #MetaNarrativas Show] [Sharing @ Facebook Album] [#imoji]