The Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture will host next Thursday, March 7, a collective exhibition of Canary Islands artists for March 8, organized by the Arrecife City Council. The exhibition Your silence will not protect you: collective artivism to not be silent will be inaugurated from 7:00 p.m.
The event, which is free and with free admission until full capacity is reached, will be attended by authorities, including the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, and the head of Social Welfare, Maite Corujo, and the artists who make up the exhibition, who will also take a guided tour of the works on display.
This exhibition, whose title pays homage to the poet Audre Lorde and which vindicates the work of these authors, is a collective exhibition of Canary Islands artists who break silences from interdisciplinary artistic creation.
The exhibition presents a journey through works that question the norms and the different forms of violence crossed by structural inequality and power relations. From conceptual photography, painting, illustration, collage, fanzine and literature to artistic installation are part of this exhibition curated by Nadia Martín García and composed by Ángela Glezal, Asiria Álvarez, Cristina Mahelo, Ellah García, Liz Lindo, Elvira Piedra, Gema Hernández, Moñoño, Nadia Martín, Laura Balde, Lana Corujo, Sara Gutimeli, Rosa Vera and Patricia Jiménez.
Works that appeal to the collective responsibility of not continuing to look the other way, of being that cry of those who are no longer there, of repairing the damage and deconstructing collective imaginaries for those who will come.
On the walls of the different rooms of the exhibition you can see the artistic work of more than a dozen Canary Islands artists who participate accompanied by a text that helps to contextualize the work of each author.
This exhibition invites a collective break of silences, as well as not perpetuating inequalities.
This is an initiative promoted by Social Welfare of Arrecife within the framework of the development of cultural projects with social implications on the occasion of the week of commemoration of March 8, International Women's Day, which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations with the aim of eliminating all forms of sexist discrimination.
On the other hand, at the initiative of the Area directed by Maite Corujo, tomorrow Friday, March 1, a banner alluding to International Women's Day will be placed on the facade of the Town Hall. Likewise, the Council collaborates with the demonstration organized by the Feminist Social Movement of Lanzarote on March 8.
Both actions aim to ratify the fight for gender equality and against the different types of violence against women.