[3] While living in Madrid, Joaristi visited museums and galleries in the city with her uncle, in addition to learning about various cultures, towns and buildings while traveling with her parents in Europe.
This work recounts a tragic event that occurred in Costa Rica on April 6, 1986, when seven women were raped and murdered after participating in a pilgrimage activity in La Cruz de Alajuelita.
[4][6]…The place was very close to me both because of its location in the Cerros de San Miguel of Escazú where I live, and because it is the destination for morning walks where I start my day.
I only thought about the meaning I should give to this fact and how to "appropriate" a tragic moment, ruled by the pain of others, to translate that experience through the language of art.
[6] This work is grounded in the struggle to eradicate inequality and machismo from society, seeking a reconstruction of women outside of socially patriarchal prejudices and stigmas that have limited them on many levels.
Public Manifesto[7] is a work of space appropriation in which the artist seeks to de-sexualize and naturalize women from the normality of the genitals without resorting to a reproduction attached to reality but by making an explicit social reference.
This work has been exhibited in various spaces around the world and has caused various reactions according to the culture and normalization of sexuality in countries such as Cuba, Japan, Spain, Italy, Costa Rica, the United States and South Africa.