In 2009, in response to the wave of femicides that took place in Ciudad Juárez in the 1990s, and the death of the artist's sister by her husband, Elina Chauvet performed in this city an installation with 33 pairs of donated shoes, painted in red. Since then, the installation has become itinerant in different cities in the world, acquiring different formats. At Biennial 12, it is renewed through a participatory work with the Porto Alegre community in co-participation with THEMIS, an NGO created by a group of lawyers and feminist social scientists that aims at confronting the women's discrimination in the judicial system. Through THEMIS it was possible the access to different points of Porto Alegre and its outskirts, divided into 7 regions: Restinga, Cruzeiro, Eixo Baltazar, Lomba do Pinheiro, East Zone, Canoas and Guaíba. The objective is to collect pairs of shoes from women who are in a situation of greater social vulnerability and besides, in some way, make the biennial arrive actively in these spaces. Shoes are displayed on the steps of the Memorial, as a powerful symbolic intervention that evokes the ongoing violence against women. It shows that it is not part of the past but painfully integrates the present.