In 1892 Mexico participated in the American-Historical Exposition of Madrid for which it made an exhibition proposal that included a collection of 768 photographic objects. This article sketches a research work done on these materials: it unfolds ways of approaching the images by considering their contextualization as a set and their relationship with other documentary sources, as well as emphasizing their construction as a documentary corpus that oscillates between the visual and the written and that works to address aspects of the presence and representation of the country in the exhibition.

Whe role that women play in today's society is the result of an ancestral assignment; however, this role is increasingly questioned by women themselves and it seems that the more they question, the more violence is generated against them, placing them in a staggering situation between being a victim or a victimizer. This is a project that delves into the construction of female identity through photographs of women who have been violated in various ways; It is an experimental proposal made with the inmates of the Puente Grande Center for Women's Reintegration, Jalisco (Mexico), with the aim that the participants were able to reconstruct their identity and link it with the violent environment where they grew up. We take into account subaltern and gender studies, as well as research based on art and the Between Voices methodology, so that this accompaniment would be from horizontality.