Renegade Women is an evolving body of photographic and stitched works developed through my postdoctoral research, grounded in sustained engagement with feminist practice, archival inquiry, memory, and material intervention. The series extends my long-term investigation into how women’s histories are preserved, obscured, or disciplined within both institutional and familial archives. It evolves from my earlier hand-stitched postcard-sized works, Uno Cuantos Piquetitos (2015–2025), a decade-long project that functioned as a site of experimentation where stitch was first employed as a critical tool to interrupt photographic surfaces. This earlier series laid the conceptual and material groundwork for Renegade Women, enabling a shift from fragmentary gestures toward a more expansive and sustained engagement with image, language, and inherited memory.

The photographic sources in Renegade Women are drawn from found archival materials from Spain and date primarily from the early twentieth century, a period of profound transition inwomen’s lives. Produced in pre–Spanish Civil War Spain, these images emerge from a momentof uneven constraint alongside growing social and political visibility, as women’s claims to autonomy began to surface, culminating in suffrage in 1931 during the Second Spanish Republic. This historical moment is central to the series because it captures women on the threshold of modernity, poised between emerging civic recognition and its abrupt erasure,  before hard-won freedoms were forcibly re-contained through Catholic morality, domestic ideology, and the disciplining language of the state.