Draft:Elina Chauvet english article

Elina Chauvet (Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, 1959) is a Mexican architect and visual artist best known for her installation "Zapatos Rojos", an art project in which she denounces violence against women and femicide.

Career Elina Chauvet studied Architecture at Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. She began as a self-taught artist and later took classes in painting, drawing, ceramics, graphic design, mixed media, and photography. She had her first show in 1996. A prominent theme of her work is denouncing violence against women.

Ever since she was a girl, she had an interest in artchitecture and creating objects she had imagined. She studied architecture and began as a self-taught artist; eventually she had the opportunity to study art with artists such as Luis Nishizawa, Roger Von Gunten, Lenero Alberto Castro, Jose Castro Lenero, Luis Felipe Ortega, Kerry Vander Meer, and Marianna Dellenkamp. In 1994 she first declared herself an artist; this same year she took a class on oil panting, thanks to which she dedicated an entire year to painting and had her first individual show at Los Mochis, Sinaloa.

Zapatos rojos "Zapatos Rojos" is a work for which she is internationally recognized. The installation was created in 2009 in response to a rash of femicides in the 1990s in Ciudad Juarez, the city of her birth. She was inspired by the death of the artist's sister at the hands of her husband. The first installation was displayed on a plaza in Ciudad Juarez August 22nd, made up of a donation of 33 pairs of shoes. Later, "replica" shows were organized in other cities in Mexico, Argentina, Italy, the US, Norway, Ecuador, Canada, and Spain among others. In total, there were nearly 50 installations through 2015.

Chauvet has participated in more than 40 group shows since 1994. In 2017 her work was included in a show "Feminicidio in Mexico Ya Basta!" presented in the Museum Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City.

The #RedShoes project, with the support of the Every women treaty,