The Formentera Department of Culture and the Formentera Department of Equality and LGTBI Affairs join Espai Dones to celebrate International Women’s Day with presentation of Descobreix-te sense tabús (Uncover yourself, taboo-free) at “Ajuntament Vell” gallery from Monday 1 March.
Photographer/designer Llorco Llorenç and model/poet Nadine Marina join forces to give voice to the women of Descobreix-te: extravagant, irreverent, critical, bold, provocative and with a style and voice all their own. Each of the show’s fifteen images is built around a particular theme, with each theme further explored in bite-size texts specially tuned for those less familiar with feminism.
Themes include “Feminism doesn’t mean helping me iron”, “Fight like a woman”, “Uncover yourself, taboo-free”, “Not hysterical, historical” and “Love songs bore me”.
The project’s origins date back to late 2017, when a chance encounter on the streets of Barcelona laid bare Llorenç and Marina’s searing creative chemistry. By injecting objects traditionally seen as ‘feminine’ with a sense of protagonism and critique, Llorenç and Marina push us to shift our perspective and explore the many ways we can uproot the stereotypes binding women to specific roles.
Creator bios
Llorco Llorenç has long since paid his dues as an artist. Bold, enthusiastic, self taught, multifaceted and principled, he has taken on the visual universe from a virtually endless array of perspectives. He learned the ropes alongside artists like Ouka Leele, Sam Haskins and América Sánchez, earning recognition in the form of numerous awards and showing his work at Arco, Fundació Miró, Sephora and Sala Blanquerna. Llorenç has a particular predilection for portraits, no doubt linked to his knack for capturing his subjects’ emotions.
Anthropologist, primary school teacher, poet, feminist, show-runner for the Lola Lolita Nolola art project and writer of No vull ser mare... Nadine Marina holds many titles. Influenced by Martha Rosler, Marina Abramovic, Marguerite Duras, Sylvia Plath and Lucía Berín, Marina trains her attention on the perpetuation of gender roles and inequalities. Through prose, dance and performance, she stimulates critical and boundary-pushing thought and offers silenced heroines —grandmothers, mothers, the upstairs neighbour, the suicided poetesses— a voice.
Visiting hours
Descobreix-te sense tabús is on view at “Ajuntament Vell” exhibition space Monday 1 March to Saturday 13 March from 11.00am to 2.00pm and 6.00pm to 8.00pm (Sundays and Monday mornings closed). The exhibition is included in the Espai Dones and Consell de Formentera-backed programme of events for International Women’s Day, 8 March. Complete programme details are forthcoming.
25 February 2021
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera
Consell de Formentera chief Alejandra Ferrer participated in a video conference today with the Platform for Vaccines, Health and Economy (Plataforma Vacunas, Salud y Economía). Other participants included deputy chief and commerce chair Ana Juan, together with business leaders, the island’s league of small- and medium-sized business, Eivissa-Formentera Association of Hotels, Pine Islands Chamber of Commerce, Confederation of Balearic Business Groups and General Union of Workers (UGT) and Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) trade unions.
This 1 March, the Consell de Formentera will host a web-based celebration of Balearic Islands Day (Dia de les Illes Balears). Virtual revellers can tune in to the Consell de Formentera YouTube channel from 10.00am to hear remarks from presidenta Alejandra Ferrer, plus see a social media-ready video tribute to the hometown dance troupes Es Xacoters and Es Pastorells.
The Formentera Department of Agriculture unveiled its 2021 offering of capacity building in agriculture and livestock. Four modules will take place in March and another two in November; the first, a 12-hour course in environmentally-friendly and soil-healthy plant care, happens 8 and 9 March.