Las mariposas que provocan tormentas
Date2023
Artist
César Viveros
(Mexican American artist and master muralist, born 1968)
Printer/Printmaker
BadLandz Media House
MediumFive-color screen print
Dimensionscomposition: 19 1/16 × 13 in. (48.4 × 33 cm)
sheet: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 2023
Object number2023-47
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe text on the poster reads, "I am the free daughter of the butterflies" and references the history of the Dominican Republic. A trio of sisters known as Las Mariposas (in English, "The Butterflies"), or Las Hermanas Mirabal, helped to undermine the brutal regime of dictator Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic for 30 years. Minerva, Patria, and Maria Teresa Mirabal and their husbands were key members of the resistance movement called El Movimiento Revolucionario 14th de Junio, or the June 14th Revolutionary Movement. Because of their efforts to share the stories of people murdered by the Trujillo regime, the sisters and their spouses were arrested. The women were freed, only to be murdered by the secret police on their way home from prison.
