A total of 63 artists from Cuba and countries such as Argentina, Spain and Mexico make visible the fight against gender violence in the group exhibition “I was also another: MásCaras”inaugurated this Wednesday in Havana.
The exhibition, organized in the context of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women“is intended to be a tribute to the women who, historically, had to use pseudonyms to publish their works,” she explained to EFE Diana Pedraza, who shares the curatorship with the art critic Alay Fuentes.
Pedraza, who also exhibits with a photograph, added that “the tribute is from a contemporary perspective, through photographs, paintings and performances”.
“It’s about the masks they had to wear in order to transcend,” added the young artist.
MásCaras, an exhibition on gender violence
“I was also another: MásCaras”, promoted by the cultural artistic enterprise Women’s Society, will remain for a month at the National Industrial Design Office in Havana.
The group exhibition respects the project’s vision of combining established artists such as Zaida del Río (2023 National Fine Arts Prize), with other newcomers such as photographers Vida Winter and Claudia Raymat.
In the case of the first, she arrives at the exhibition with the piece “Impermanencias del ser2”, with a message: “Not being afraid to show ourselves as we are: women.”
Claudia Raymat, meanwhile, defends in her work “To be or not to be” the “sensuality of women, their sweetness, but also their strength.”
