Sheroes-Revoluciones 2.0

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Lon-art’s fight to draw attention to violence against women* and girls is still on and so Sheroes–Revoluciones returns with an online project created for Women’s Herstory Month and beyond.

The Covid-19 crisis has brought to the fore the plethora of forms of violence that women are still subject to today and thus, Sheroes–Revoluciones is needed more than ever.

Sheroes-Revoluciones 2.0 will give continuity to Lon-art’s mission to provide a platform for artists, survivors and change-makers and continue to feed into this very much needed conversation through insightful art from sheroic women artists and a series of online events to address social questions around gender-based violence and empower us all through the arts.

The 2021 online edition will showcase the work of over 15 artists both from the Sheroes– Revoluciones exhibition in November 2019, who will create brand new artworks for the occasion, and new Sheroes artists. Working across performance and visual arts in a range of media, the topics the artworks will cover include domestic violence, consent, invisible women, digital violence and visual culture.

The project will also include:

- an assemblage workshop on 'The Power of Women's Representation' with Sam Heydt.

- two panel talks that, through the voices of women in the academia, public figures, artists and activists, will provide a space for reflection on the following topics: "Violence Against Women and Girls and the State" and "What is Next for Feminism". 

- an art discussion to rethink the way women have been - and still are - portrayed in our visual history and its violent side effects. 

Sheroes–Revoluciones was launched on 22-24 November 2019 with an exhibition that showcased 30 artists from all over the world and was attended by over 700 people. The project is inspired by the staggering statistics that show how women are potential and real victims of violence in our society (domestic abuse, rape/sexual assault, revenge porn, gender pay gap among others).

Sheroes–Revoluciones aims to visualise this particular social issue, using the arts to express, reflect, prevent and heal.