An immersive exhibition seeks to expose child marriages in Mexico.

The Mexico City Museum hosts the immersive exhibition A Future of Our Own , in which the organization Girls Not Brides seeks to raise awareness and prevent child marriages in the region through "a sound journey," which takes place in the context of the celebration of the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In a small, dark, and intimate room where four large bouquets of flowers hang, the exhibition invites people to approach them and listen to the fusion of poetry and letters written by girls and adolescents who married before the age of 18.

“What we're looking for is for this to be a space to spark important conversations about child marriage and early and forced unions from a different perspective,” explained Alma Burciaga, Girls Not Brides representative for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Next to those bouquets that ring and light up with the embrace of the flowers, there is a small inverted tree from which hang “ little threads with promises that girls wrote to themselves , which reach your hand in a way that is not by chance,” Burciaga noted.

Plumbago Studio creative Marta Muñoz noted that "art is what forces us to imagine that other worlds are possible," so the viewer must "understand this (the exhibition) as a device for change."

Preceding the space, a prelude to midwives, women who accompany the physiological processes of other women's sexual and reproductive health, introduces "the sensory experience," creating a close relationship between two stories that feed off each other.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, one in four girls is married before the age of 18.

In Mexico, 10.4 million girls and adolescents marry before reaching adulthood; and 2.3 million do so when they are under 15.

This practice was removed from Mexico's civil codes in 2019 , except in Baja California, but it is believed to still occur in various communities across the country.