120, 000 missing people in Mexico

Between 2016 and 2025, the number of missing persons in Mexico has risen from 27,000 to over 120,000. This staggering increase in the number of disappearances is largely due to organised crime, including the brutal war on drugs fuelled by massive demand in the US. The United States’ lack of accountability for its role in this demand has exacerbated the violence and tragedy affecting countless people in Mexico.

It’s the worst crisis of the disappeared in Latin America since the Cold War, when military-backed governments kidnapped and secretly killed their leftist opponents — an estimated 45,000 in Guatemala, up to 30,000 in Argentina, as many as 3,400 in Chile. Mexico’s numbers keep rising.

The title of this action changes every year. I started this action in 2016, when there were 27,000 people missing in Mexico.

The titles of my performances aim to be read as a positive phrase, a sentence that opens possibilities to find victims, but the number of missing people increases every year and this unexpected change in quantity makes the work title obsolete.