The artist proposes questioning the pre-established criteria of suicide and its direct relationship with the most vulnerable social structures. In reality, the statistics show the opposite and point precisely to the highest castes of the social pyramid, where solvency is mainly not a concern.
It is almost impossible for us ever to know the real causes for the resignation of many officials involved in power structures that are tottering or what the factors that motivate them never again to form part of the mechanism where ethics and dignity are compromised.
In this work, the artist uses the tie as a fashion accessory that marks and distinguishes a social status. Using these fashion symbols to question power and its visual projection is recurring in Lorena Gutiérrez’s discourse. For this reason, she highlights the double function of the tie: as a garment and/or method of pressure, suffocation, or lethal weapon.