Memorial Museum to Abused Women

The Memorial Museum to Abused Women was designed to be a voice of protest amidst growing national and international violence against women. The project is located at the center of the Polígono Central, the economic hive of Santo Domingo, capital of the country. This allows its message of protest to ring clear. The narrative of the museum explores the stages of the cycle of abuse—calm, tension, explosion, and reconciliation—through respectively themed exhibition rooms. This marking experience is achieved through the manipulation of spatial proportions, light and shadow, textures, and materials.

Ana Reyes Cid is a Dominican interdisciplinary creative director and designer currently based in Los Angeles, whose work spans performance, theatre, movement, and film. Leveraging her architectural background, she approaches storytelling spatially, seamlessly integrating movement and design as powerful forms of language.

Reyes Cid's work explores themes of transformation, femininity, and otherness by forging cross-cultural connections in literature, myth, and ritual. She reinterprets elements—such as texture, composition, and motifs—from both distant and recent past in a contemporary context.