Polvo de Gallina Negra, “founded in 1983, was the first self-described feminist art collective in Mexico. Over the course of a decade the group created a number of innovative public and participatory works involving performance and media interventions that disrupted patriarchal systems and attempted to transform conditions for women in art and society... The name Polvo de Gallina Negra translates to 'black hen powder', a traditional remedy used as protection against the evil eye, which the artists anticipated they would receive in relation to the feminist content of their work. The group outlined three key goals they wished to achieve: '(1) To analyse women’s images in art and in the media, (2) to study and to promote the participation of women in art, and (3) to create images based on our experience as women in a patriarchal system, with a feminist perspective and with the goal of transforming the visual world in order to alter reality.'”