Maria Evelia Marmolejo is a performance artist who often used self-harm as a means of self-expression to shock her audience into paying attention to the violence happening around them.
Maria Evelia Marmolejo (born 1958) is a Colombian radical feminist performance artist, later based in Madrid and New York City. "Anonimo 1" also marked the beginning of her often utilizing self-harm as a technique to express herself in her performances and easily capture the attention of her audiences. Maria Evelia Marmolejo intended to shock spectators into paying attention to the violence around them, to confront the various disappearances and murders, and to convince them of the great need to heal the pain that this violence had caused. 
