"In the series "Tan trillada, tan callada" (So Threshed, So Silent), I searched countless objects that would deal with multiple meanings—their immediate meaning, and their metaphoric meaning—that would link themselves with social relations between the sexes. Also, I wanted to do this without losing a keen sense of humor, characteristic of the Mexican people.

I wanted to interpret a version of my reality : being a married woman, a maternal woman, a workingwoman, a student woman, a besieged woman, a homemaker woman, and simply a woman.

Of course, this enigmatic reality that any Mexican woman lives, keeps building a reflective and critical sense, to which I dare invite the audience with no pretense other than to contemplate the result of a web of judgments and prejudices, which keep threshing, marginalizing, subjugating, and stigmatizing women and despite all that...keeps them silent. In this context, the role of the man is no more than the messiah from whom the woman expects salvation. Taking this concept as the unmotivated hope of change, of recognition or equal rights coming from the opposite sex."— Verónica Buentello