OUR OWN ROOM
Curaduría Inés R. Artola
Artist
María Abaddon, Justyna Adamczyk, Mona Aghababaee, Jasmine Bakalarz, Mabe Bethonico, Gabriela Carmona, Izabella Chamczyk, Dellfina Dellert, Frau Diamanda, Magdalena Firląg, Liliana G. Cuéllar, Valeria Ghezzi, Natalia Jiménez Gallardo, Simona Malato, Wynnie Minerva, Eliza Proszczuk Analia Rodríguez, Cristina Savage, Barbara Schall, Agata Zbylut.
Me gustaría proponer un proyecto basado en las palabras de Virginia Woolf en Una habitación propia con dos etapas de desarrollo: la primera completamente digital y virtual que prevé una estrategia de difusión viral de distribución y de seis meses de duración. La segunda etapa cristalizará en una exposición analógica ¨real¨. El libro de Virginia Woolf se basa en las conferencias que dio en 1928 en dos universidades femeninas de Cambridge. Su tesis básica era algo tan simple como difícil de lograr incluso hoy en día: una mujer, para convertirse en creadora, necesita su propia habitación, es decir, ser económicamente independiente. Aquí, y desde hoy, queremos ampliar el espectro, a mujeres artistas de diferentes disciplinas. Y también dejar un espacio para las mujeres anónimas (o con nombre propio, si lo desean) que reflexionen sobre la importancia y la necesidad de ser independientes.
I would like to dedicate this project to all the women who have disappeared or been mistreated during this period of confinement, precisely because they do not have their own room.
Inés R. Artola
I would like to propose a project based on the words of Virginia Woolf in A Room of One´s Own. It consist in a two stages of development, first completely digital and virtual. This stage forsees a viral dissemination strategy of distribution and will last six months. The second stage will crystallise the first one in a analogic ¨real¨ exhibition.
Virginia Woolf´s book is based on the lectures that she gave in 1928 at two women's universities in Cambridge. Her basic thesis was something so simple as difficult to achieve even today: a woman, in order to become a creator, needs her own room, that is, to be economically independent.
Here, and from today, we want to widen the spectrum, to women artists from different disciplines. And also leave a space for anonymous women (or with their own name, if they wish) who reflect on the importance and need to be independent. The times of crisis due to the pandemic that we are suffering all over the world, have further accentuated this need.The only space for work and reflection has been reduced to four walls: the artists, regardless of the discipline they practice and the country they are based, have not only created in their homes or workshops, but have also exhibited their work from there in view of the impossibility of showing it elsewhere.
My aim is to invite women artists (here I am referring to the feeling of being a woman, not to the gender one is ¨born¨ with) to take Woolf's words as a starting point, to reflect on them and then show their work from their own rooms, in the format they choose and in total freedom.
In order to support them and make them known in different geographies, the project aims to create and expand a networks and involve more and more people in the project, regardless of the country they are in. A simple action that will use social networks (FaceBook and Instagram) with a constant drip programme, aims to become a viral phenomenon.
Each week will be devoted to one of the participating artists, starting the project in October 2020 (as this is the month in which Woolf's book was first published) and closing on 8 March 2021, Working Women's Day. The creation and promotion of the page will begin on September, the 28th and the first artist presentation will take place the week of October, the 5th. Once a month a woman writer or journalist will dedicate a few words of reflection to the situation of women and their own room. They will be our ambassadors and will help us to promote the initiative.
Each day of the week on Facebook will be dedicated to the following points: Monday: presentation of the artist's biography + portrait.
Tuesday: the artist's answer to the question: what is a room of your own for you? +portrait with the book by Virginia Woolf.
Wednesday: a selected quote from the book that is significant for the artist.
Thursday: presentation of artistic work +answer to how they think the situation of women is in their countries of origin or residence.
Friday: presentation of artistic work +a reading they think is important about women.
Saturday: Reading day with an article written by a woman about the reality of women and/or presentation of a woman in history.
Sunday: reading day with texts by anonymous women or in their own name who, regardless of their jobs, age, race or nationality, tell us about their experience of their own room.
