Exhibition: Femicide
March 12th – April 19th 2010
Opening Show on March 12th 7:00 PM – 10:00PM
Contact: Mia Roman - artbymamamia@yahoo.com
Curator: Mia Roman
Abrazo Interno Gallery: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002
About the show:
“Femicide” is defined as the systematic killing of women for various reasons, usually cultural or domestic. Femicide is seen as a gender crime. Most of the women were raped before being murdered and some were mutilated, tortured and dismembered. It is an epidemic of gross proportions. The mutilation, rape and murder of women along the US/Mexico border, Congo, Guatemala, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq has become an annual statistic, with little mainstream media coverage and even less national outcry. And the worse part of it is that many of these disappearances are not even investigated, they literally disappear, vanish and are wiped from legibility.
How can rapes, incest, beatings and mutilations in such places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosnia, Darfur, Afghanistan and Haiti go unanswered? Where Femicide, the systematic and planned destruction of the female population, is being used as a tactic of war to clear villages, pillage mines and destroy the fabric of Congolese society.
Art by Mia introduces “Femicide”… bringing it to the forefront through visual arts, poetry and music. More than thirty works by over ten emerging and established artists will be on display. They will evoke emotion, create dialogue and bring the coldest soul to its knees. The exhibit’s focus is to bring awareness to the atrocity of female killing all over the world.
About CSV/ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, Inc.:
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, Inc. (CSV), a 501 (C) 3 not-for-profit, was founded in 1993. The CSV Cultural Center is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy. While CSV's mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latino culture, it is equally determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner, housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as a whole.
Featured Artists:
Nadya Troche Chapra,Marbeth Dunn, Wilda Gonzalez, Susanna Hidalgo
Elena Marrero, Mariam Muradian, Sylvia Ortiz
Kai Margarida – Ramirez de Arellano, Araceli RedSirens
Mia “Art By Mia” Roman, Helene Ruiz, Nelson Host Santiago
Poetry By: J.F. Seary, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Rock Wilk
Music By: Ron Zilla
Art is an expression of the unconscious and is dedicated to the free expression of feeling.
