Poetisk kvinnelighet” – Repeating Islands

These restrictions are evident at worldwide degree, stopping their full participation within the totally different areas of integration, together with the creative sphere, which signifies that even at this time there are few specialised research that deal with the presence and contribution of ladies to the event of Artwork all through historical past. Latin America and the Caribbean are not any exception. In truth, many are the voices which have been raised, utilizing totally different discourses, addressing the difficulty of gender equality as a social, political and philosophical motion. On this context, for the reason that Eighties, a generalized concern for human issues has arisen in Latin America, which interprets into an moral sense of artwork that imbue and drives creative creation.

Within the case of the Dominican Republic, this vindictive battle has inspired girls from totally different inventive sectors to lift their voices in favor of this trigger. A conceptual cry that rises, like a small WHISPER, from this Caribbean half-island. A dedication that motivates them to lift proposals selling fairness, inclusion and equality, from the elementary query of the position of artwork in these points; to imagine a dedicated stance towards this native and world actuality, offered to us as an urgency, turning right into a social want for response.

Below these circumstances, we will perceive the work of many Dominican artists who deal with points associated to the female universe, similar to couple relationships, id and gender violence, migratory processes -related to poverty and prostitution-, in addition to different features alluding the human situation typically. On this venture, all these themes are handled in a particular approach, which brings collectively the work of Belkis Ramírez, Citlally Miranda, Inés Tolentino, Raquel Paiewonsky and Scherezade García, presenting the imaginative and prescient of 5 modern Dominican artists, approaching by way of their works the theme of ladies -from totally different views and realities – and establishing a diachronic dialogue. These works embrace set up, images, video, portray, woodcut, and drawing.

Creations generally changed into denunciations, with the intention of making consciousness and trying to find options to the violation of ladies and women’ rights all over the world. An urging drawback that has prompted that modern society faces an essential social scourge, in a macro sense, translated into violence in its totally different variants and that at this time makes the Dominican Republic face staggering numbers of home violence. A drama that impacts 1 out of each 3 Dominican girls, in response to a examine carried out by the World Well being Group, registering 152 femicides in 2021, solely 18 lower than in 2020. This totals 3,049 girls within the final 17 years, in response to the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace. In the meantime, within the nation, little one marriage was not criminalized till 2021 and feminine emigration, increased than male emigration, continues to be an issue associated to inequalities and prostitution.

Issues talking of an unpaid social debt, masterfully addressed by these 5 girls, in a multigenerational dialogue, who turn into nice voices from the Caribbean, which whisper realities and tales from their very own microcosm and from others’, deliberately flaunted to contribute to the worldwide discourse and, in a roundabout way, to represent an providing and homage to the violated girl…

Ideas, trajectories and productions are analyzed by 5 prestigious Dominican intellectuals whose texts critically dialogue, in a crossing of views, with every of the works that kind the curatorial corpus; bringing them conceptually nearer to the viewer. Our honest gratitude goes to them, in addition to to the establishments and corporations which have sponsored this exhibition, permitting its worldwide projection. To Banco BHD, Excel Group, Corripio Editorial and the Ministry of Ladies, for his or her precious contribution to this collective effort to venture Dominican artwork past its borders and strengthen fraternal and pleasant ties with a rustic which it has had industrial relations with for many years nevertheless, with little cultural change selling actions that set up a dialogue between each nations from the standpoint of artwork and tradition.

On this sense, it appears acceptable and pertinent that Norway, by way of the Stavanger area, has the chance to get to know the standard and creative effervescence of the Dominican Republic, which distinguishes and positions itself as one of the crucial essential creative areas within the Caribbean. Subsequently, this exhibition in Norway, and the following exhibition of latest Norwegian artwork within the Dominican Republic, is made potential because of Rogaland Kunstsenter and Stavanger municipality, with out whose beneficiant participation this essential cultural change wouldn’t be potential. On this sense, we thank its director, Jane Sverdrupsen, for her approval and enthusiastic collaboration.

Thus, “Whisper: Poetics of Femininity” brings collectively the work and efforts of artists, establishments and individuals who, individually and collectively, consider within the communicative capability of artwork, as a approach of unveiling the world, in addition to providing potentialities of provocation and inducing motion, regardless of the evident pessimism that the present panorama awakens concerning the varied issues affecting girls. All of this changed into an exhibition set, the leitmotiv of tales and meta-stories that whisper, in entrance of this world and native actuality, and be part of so many different voices that, in a sport of mental seduction, are offered as a wink inviting ladies and men all over the world to in some way, why not, rewrite this story.

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[Shown above: detail of “Inmaculada” by Raquel Paiewonsky.]