Excavated Self, 2013
!["Silent Chorus" grew from an initial interaction with women victims of human trafficking and from conversations about the relationship of the many issues affecting women - from unperceptive daily discrimination to femicide. "Silent Chorus" uses as a reference, a tragic chorus in classic theater, where the collective stood for the personal and was used to discuss issues affecting individuals in a universal way [Silent_Chorus, 2018 a project by Eva_Rocha] Chorus, 2018 -16 sculptures installation. The work has a triangular configuration, not well seen in the photos. It will be shown at the Taubman Museum in the Fall of 2021](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db84544c12b3353a4b94931/1572358325865-4Y05C4BQ7DPIQ7D9YWW0/eva_rocha)
"Silent Chorus" is an installation about the many issues affecting women - from unperceptive daily discrimination to femicide. "Silent Chorus" uses as a reference, a tragic chorus in classic theater, where the collective stood for the personal and was used to discuss issues affecting individuals in a universal way. [Silent Chorus is a 16 sculpture installation. The work has a triangular configuration.]
For the creation of this work I used a process I learned while living in Baños del Incas in the Andes of Perus in 2005 and studying under an old ceramist, Maestro Cabreira, that restored Pre-Colombian ceramic. I adapted that process to create a reversed sculpture and I developed a way to paint them with dirt, terra-cota like.
“Coro of Womennequins” 2013-2017 (chorus of mannequins) 16 sculptures about issues affecting women. The first was created in 2013 and last in 2017.
“Coro of Womennequins” 2013-2017 ( composed of 16 sculptures) photo from window case at the Valentine Museum in 2017-2018
Womennequin # 2
Womenequin #7 and #4
Coro of Womennequin #1 (2013) #2 and #3 (2014)
Womennequin #4 (part of the chorus of womennequins)
Coro of Womennequin #5 and #6
“The Goddess of Wisdom, Beauty, Fraternity, Justice and Truth” 2016 wax over wood and found parts
![“Bride” 2015 [work shown at William King Museum in 2016 - [private collection]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db84544c12b3353a4b94931/1572361494598-94IWI89Z902WMKDIQJPF/01_eva_rocha_bride)
“Bride” 2015 [work shown at William King Museum in 2016 - [private collection]
“Transfixed” 2016
![“A Hymn to my Mother’s Tear at the Kitchen Table” 2019 [work showed at MOCA-VA in 2019]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db84544c12b3353a4b94931/1572361454744-PN1Q08I4KCH0DQMI8HEN/eva_rocha_01_sculptures)
“A Hymn to my Mother’s Tear at the Kitchen Table” 2019 [work showed at MOCA-VA in 2019]
“The Most Beautiful Woman Alive” [detail} 2013
![“Breaking Bread” 2019 [concrete, barbed wire and dirt] as installed during the exhibition Museum of Capitalism at Parsons School, NYC photo by Marc Tutti](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db84544c12b3353a4b94931/1581096096977-XFS91UQJ6H3A8HTFUPJT/Museum+of+Capitalism_Eva+Rocha_bread_photo+by+Marc+Tutti+-+67.jpg)
“Breaking Bread” 2019 [concrete, barbed wire and dirt] as installed during the exhibition Museum of Capitalism at Parsons School, NYC photo by Marc Tutti
“Cova” 2020
![[private collection]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db84544c12b3353a4b94931/1593009565681-LCG760N7AUFX7JUJYRZ8/Eva_Rocha_hands.jpg)
[private collection]
![“March -The People” 2017 [detail of installation]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db84544c12b3353a4b94931/1604580932861-FICMX9OI1PD0CD5B5P0Z/Eva+Rocha_feet_2017_SFAI+Installation.jpg)
“March -The People” 2017 [detail of installation]
![“Vestige” [William King Museum 2019]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db84544c12b3353a4b94931/1629823340935-OVRB93O1UP0OZ320XUG8/IMG_4940.jpg)
“Vestige” [shown at William King Museum 2019]
“Severed” 2017 (detail, installed at Santa Fe Art Institute in 2017)
“Cruxi” [2019}