Young people from the Amurga and Támara secondary schools use art against gender violence

 

Students from IES Amurga and IES Támara are presenting a collective art exhibition entitled 'Weaving the Future' at the Casa de Saturninita Municipal Art Center. The exhibition, inaugurated by Mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez Sánchez, is a visual reflection on gender violence. It can be visited until January 8th.

 

'Weaving the Future', designed as a visually committed narrative against gender violence, is an initiative promoted by the Casa Saturninita Municipal Art Center in collaboration with the two participating educational centers and the Department of Equality, headed by Deputy Mayor Elena Álamo Vega, and coordinated by Councilor Esther Delgado Sánchez.

 

The works, created using mixed media and various materials, primarily collages and burlap, and even a visual installation, are displayed in a continuous dialogue with each other and with the viewer, sharing the common goal of building a more respectful, inclusive, and supportive present and future world. Here, the students become storytellers, crafting narratives that invite reflection, feeling, and transformation. The materials they use, including the red thread as a metaphor, become meaningful messages about equality and against violence, control, fear, and isolation.

 

Already at the opening ceremony, through a performance and also the reading of a manifesto, the students themselves made it clear that "Through art we speak of women who feel trapped in the web of violence, of the invisible thread that holds them and also of the strength needed to break it."

 

 

Mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez expressed his gratitude for the involvement of the students and teachers of the two educational centers in this exhibition project, which "aims to touch people's minds and make society reflect on what it is doing wrong and what it must correct in order to achieve greater and better coexistence," he said.

 

For her part, Elena Álamo emphasized that 'Weaving the Future' "is a commitment to education as a transformative tool, as a living loom where memory intertwines with hope to weave a freer, more equal and just society," she said.