“La tercera mirada,” based on real events, stems from the documentation collected by Alcalá during interviews with women who suffered gender-based terrorism for the creation of her previous photographic project “Scars of the Soul.” During these interviews, the artist noticed that, for many women, the trigger that made them realize that what was happening was intolerable was their children.
The artist uses this channel—the child’s gaze—as a means of connecting the viewer with the story of psychological abuse being told. For Emma Alcalá, “the most vulnerable victims of gender-based violence are children. You cannot grow up in fear, which is why childhood must be protected. We need a shift in perspective. Violence is not something inevitable.”
