María Eugenia Trujillo's exhibition Mujeres Ocultas, due to open last August 27th at Museo Santa Clara in Bogotá, was temporarily suspended on opening day due to an Order of Protection presented to the Cundinamarca Administrative Tribunal, claiming that the exhibit "insults the religious and cultural values of the Christian faith." According to reports, the exhibition created controversy among various religious groups, such as Voto Católico and the Bishop's Conference, as well as some private persons, which presented three separate orders of protection against the museum for "alleged violations of the fundamental right of religious freedom established in Article 19th of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Colombia." Mujeres Ocultas arrived at Museo Santa Clara to dialog with a space that lost its religious character in 1968, as a proposal "that recreates different parts of the female body in artworks referencing objects similar to pyxes, trellises, and mannequins, in order to represent the subjugation and historical mistreatment of women across the centuries. It is an invitation to consider the meaning of the body, which must be respected, protected, and safeguarded as sacred," says the museum. The exhibition, programmed through September 38th, featured objects that allude to monstrances of the Catholic ritual, at the center of which are fragments of the female body embroidered in thread, beads, and semi-precious stones, as an homage to the experience of female love. The show also included four trellises in gilded wood with embroideries, paintings, and embossed aluminum that invite the audience to reflect on female eroticism, from human love to mystical love. Finally, there were two female mannequins, of the kind used in the fashion industry (familiar to the artist growing up, thanks to her father's business), displaying images of hearts at the center of the chest. María Eugenia Trujillo is a Colombian artist whose works have been exhibited solo at the Palacio de la Inquisición in Cartagena, Colombia, Universidad CES in Medellín, and Museo Caldas in Manizales, among other institutions. She has also participated in international group shows such as Macondiano (2013), in Châtillon, France, and the Salon Femes Bronchées 95 (2013) in Montreal, Canada.