The Salon of Spanish Rejects, London 2014 It is not the first time a salon of rejected artists takes place: in the 19th century in Paris, artists such as Manet or Cézanne ―nowadays considered leading figures in the history of art― took part in the “Salon des Refusés” because their works had not been accepted to be exhibited in the “Salon de peinture et de sculpture”. The Salon of Spanish Rejects is inspired by that French idea and it has a main goal: to be a launchpad for emerging artists who have been affected by the economic crisis and may be struggling to exhibit or to continue their artistic practice. This exhibition has been promoted by Lon-art.org, a non-profit association which has this wonderful idea of educating though art. With this project, Lon-art.org has not only wanted to help those artists who, due to the crisis, had to migrate from Spain to UK, but also to be a protest movement against the government's ideological use of the crisis.
This fanzine has been created by Art for Art's Shake with the collaboration of Lon-art.org.
CONTENTS • OPENING.................................................................. 4 • ARTISTS ◦ Anaïs Abbot & Miguel Alda ….............................. 5 ◦ Marta Beltrán.......................................................... 6 ◦ Donacio Cejas .................................................. 7 – 8 ◦ Alejandro Cid.................................................. 9 – 10 ◦ Adrián Cuesta & Luis Martínez.................... 11 – 12 ◦ Cristina Cuevas............................................. 13 – 14 ◦ Emilio & Esther............................................. 15 – 16 ◦ María Gilino.................................................. 17 – 18 ◦ José Gómez................................................... 19 – 20 ◦ Viveka Goyanes............................................ 21 – 22 ◦ Fátima Masoud...................................................... 23 ◦ Luis Martínez................................................ 24 – 25 ◦ Verónica Restrepo......................................... 26 – 27 ◦ Anahí Rodríguez........................................... 28 – 29 ◦ Daniel Sánchez...................................................... 30 ◦ Miguel Souto................................................. 31 – 32
◦ Art for Art's Shake........................................ 33 – 34 ◦ My Belly Is Mine.......................................... 35 – 36
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WORKSHOPS ◦ Women Out of Focus.................................... 37 – 39 ◦ Women, Ceramics and Migration......................... 40 ◦ Censura Grupal..................................................... 41 ◦ Spanish Art Puppets.............................................. 42 ◦ Art Circus.............................................................. 43 ◦ Photography for Social Change............................ 44 ◦ Habla de Arte................................................ 45 – 46
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MINI-'ZINES BY ART FOR ART'S SHAKE..... 47 - 50
OPENING NIGHT
‘The Salon of Spanish Rejects’ opening event on the night of 7th May 2014, was a huge success, with way over a hundred attendees! Thank you to
the
artists
and
collaborating
organisations, to our sponsor, Bodegas Muga, for the delicious wine and support towards this event, to the musicians,
Guillermo
Díaz
and
Rosario Villajos, as well as to all of you who came to see the art and show your support! 4
ANAÏS ABBOT & MIGUEL ALDA Anaïs Abbot and Miguel Alda live in London and are teachers of Spanish. Their literary work is gnostic by nature, centring on the creation of possible alternative worlds to the capitalist one, with decisive touches of pseudo-science, occultism, magic and esotericism. In El Salón de los Rechazados Españoles, they are presenting their novel La revolución invisible (The Invisible Revolution), the second part in the Un mundo sin dinero (A World without Money) trilogy. In this
novel,
narrate
the
the
authors
process
of
from
the
transformation
contemporary neo-capitalist world to a utopian system, functioning without money, ruled by a direct electronic democracy
and
with
a
paradigm of human relations not based on self-interest or profit but on altruism. retebook@gmail.com 5
www.retebook.blogspot.co.uk
MARTA BELTRÁN Marta’s montage of drawings and photocopies explores ‘a middle space between cinematic linear narrative and the painterly fixed image.’ Her inspiration was film stills and portraits of movie stars from different periods and genres, which she used to explore more personal experience. Marta is living in London temporarily, and sees the city as a good location to develop her artwork, find new inspiration and bring her work to the public and a wider, specialised market. She is motivated
by translating
into
images her inner thoughts and emotional
experiences.
Her
drawings are mostly in black and white, as she prefers the contrast and dramatic nature this create.
martabeltranferrer@gmail.com www.cargocollective.com/martabeltran
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DONACIO CEJAS Donacio’s work is inspired by ‘souvenir-aesthetics’, the cultural clichés of the Canary Islands and, by extension, ‘the fake identities of Spanish kitsch.’ These fantasy compositions of tropical animals and plants mirror the aesthetics of a tourist postcard. Donacio was inspired by a return to his native Canary Islands from Madrid during a period of unemployment. He explains that while there, he became aware of ‘the paradox of being unemployed-unuseful in a context of a tourist area with a strong visual identity of ‘European tropic’ and ‘paradise’ that hides its social reality.’ He therefore began the Papaya Calypso project, ‘a personal research project into the aesthetics of happiness and the flamboyant masks that place a second identity over the Canary Islands.’ Donacio, an architect from the island of El Hierro, has a postgraduate qualification in Temporary Architecture and Set Design. He has been in London for almost two years and is working as Exhibition Designer for MET Studio. He has a parallel career as an illustrator for magazines such as CYANmag, and was selected in 2012 as one of the top eleven emerging graphic artists of the Canary Islands. This is his first exhibition in London. 7
donaciocejasacosta@gmail.com www.donacio.com
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ALEJANDRO CID
Ale was a member of the media collective Comisión audiovisual Barcelona - 15Mbcn, established during the 15M movement in Spain. His video and sound art is designed to increase consciousness and expose the corruption and injustice he perceives in Spain. The work exhibited deals with subjects including mass tourism, old age, a general strike and the Spanish king’s notorious recent trip to Africa.
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This is Ale’s second year in London. In his own words, he is ‘a hostel receptionist, barman, farmer… but also a sound recorder, sound post-producer, photographer and writer’. Ale found the Spanish cinema and media industry to be saturated, but he already had the desire to emigrate before the crisis. He says, ‘Lady Recession doesn’t affect me more than in my search for that utopian place called Home. The crisis is just a political issue, a point of view, a weapon to control the people. And I fight against it through politics, using sound, image and creativity to, at the very least, communicate and open a dialogue with people.’
www.aecidg.com www.inutilespalabras.wordpress.com
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ADRIÁN CUESTA & LUIS MARTÍNEZ
Focussing on the growing Spanish community in London and the UK, Cambio de Planes is a photography project exploring cases of highly-educated Spaniards carrying out lesser-qualified jobs in the UK. ‘Since the start of the crisis, many Spaniards are struggling to get the positions they feel they deserve while working in jobs they are not satisfied with. With this premise, the project looks into their motivations and dreams, telling us about these people’s stories and the duality of their present situations: who they really are, and who they would like to be. They were forced, at some point, to change their plans.’ Adrián, from Madrid, has been living in the UK for three years and is working as an MCR Operator in a TV centre. Having graduated in Media and Communication from Complutense University in Madrid, he is passionate about the media and social issues. Adrían suggests that the crisis in Spain may have affected his career in a positive way: ‘Since I moved to London, I have discovered myself as a photographer and,
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most importantly, I’ve met excellent people to work with and who encourage me to keep working.’ Luis is also exhibiting his series Fighters! (We All Are) in this exhibition, alongside which you can find out more about him.
cambiodeplanes.uk@gmail.com www.cambiodeplanesuk.wordpress.com
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CRISTINA CUEVAS Women out of Focus is a photography series based on a notion of women’s loss of identity. Cristina depicts this through obscuring faces and playing with the camera focus. She explains that ‘every time we as women lose one of our rights, we lose a bit of ourselves and our identity, and what we are becomes blurry.’ Cristina sees herself ‘as a storyteller who uses lights and shadows to build what I want to express.’
The installation Inside Me. Inside You is Cristina’s comment on the abortion draft bill in Spain, and ‘a woman’s right to choose.’ She depicts ‘the belly of a woman, any woman’, and includes photographs of the stomachs of different 13
models, as ‘any of us could find ourselves in that situation.’ The installation gives us the ability to experience being inside a woman’s body, and the isolation that a pregnancy could cause. But ultimately, Cristina wants us to focus on ‘the power of women, their rights, and their right to decide.’ Cristina has been in London for three months and, since arriving, has been working in several part-time jobs. Her background is in photography and cinematography, with experience in Spain, Germany and Los Angeles, where she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to complete her MFA. Returning to Spain after the course, she discovered that the Spanish cultural industry was ‘shutting down’. However, she explains, ‘after a while this lack of opportunities was an opportunity in itself to explore new paths as an artist and photographer. In the end, I can say the crisis allowed me to grow and develop my work in other ways.’ This is Cristina’s first exhibition in London.
hola@cristinacuevas.com www.cristinacuevas.com 14
EMILIO & ESTHER Emilio and Esther’s video has been created in order to give Spanish artists an opportunity to express their thoughts about the current political and economic situation in Spain and how it has affected their careers and work. Emilio, from Andalusia, followed a BA in Advertising with an MA in TV Production at the University of Barcelona, working with the main Catalan TV station, TV3. He moved to London one year ago to seek and embrace new opportunities. Since coming here, he has been combining a number of office jobs with film projects, and is currently working on his own short film. This is the first time he has participated in an exhibition as a video artist. Esther’s photography is inspired by cities and urban landscapes. The triptych, taken in Paris, is influenced by montage cinematography, with unconnected images (here shot in different places) being connected and given a narrative by the viewer. Cristo was taken in Esther’s home city of Madrid, while New Museum was taken in New York. Esther explains that she is not interested in photography as a copy of ‘reality’,
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but rather is interested in how the photograph lies and creates a composition of colours and forms that have a value in and of themselves, separate from and not subordinate to the ‘reality’ they supposedly capture.
Esther, from Madrid, moved to Paris in 2005 after finishing photography school, and stayed there for six years, so has always seen the financial crisis in Spain from a distance. She has been in London for a total of eighteen months, with a break spent in the USA. She is both a photographer and videographer, and has previously exhibited her work in Spain and Mexico. This is her first exhibition in the UK.
emilio.soberino@gmail.com ruizdepablosesther@gmail.com
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MARÍA GILINO María integrates surreal, supernatural and fantasy elements into her artwork. María created La Caída specifically for the Salon of Spanish Rejects, inspired by the concept of the exhibition. For her, La Caída represents ‘the things we have lost through emigrating: leaving our families and friends behind, losing our identities and having to start again.’ The figure in Alice came to María in a dream. Although she completed the painting two years ago, she has chosen it for exhibition as she feels it could be interpreted as a symbol of the strength of women, something that the exhibition and the current political climate in Spain have brought to the forefront of her mind.
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María arrived in London a year and a half ago. She explains, ‘my story is the same as that of many others who come here, have to learn a new language, work long hours in jobs that force you to live from day to day, but also find new opportunities.’ She says that ‘economic instability in Spain can be seen as the cause for the growth, both personal and intellectual, of many artists here as they try to use every resource the city offers.’ Recently, with more security in her professional life and with the opportunity to exhibit with other Spanish artists, María has begun ‘breathing and painting’ again. She has taken part in a number of exhibitions in London, including lon-art.org’s first Social Exhibition, Seeds of Creativity. She will be exhibiting at the Museum Galerie Rosmolen Universart in Holland from 29th May to 9th June.
mariagilino@gmail.com www.mariagilino.com
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JOSÉ GÓMEZ With Africa, José reminds us of the proximity to Spain of the world’s ‘biggest and richest continent.’. He created the sculpture to depict issues of emigration and exportation, exploitation by the West, trade, poverty, richness, commodities and fragility, as well as ‘transformations of materials and balance.’ Bird in Space is a representation of Brancusi’s 1928 sculpture of the same name. José explains, ‘my intention was to pay homage to this shiny and perfect piece, but using rough, used, found and unwanted objects, to give the materials new expressions and rescue the soul of the original object.’
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Distorsión has a split significance: while it could be seen as a playful piece, mimicking the joy of the funfair hall of mirrors, it now makes José reflect upon Spain and London. With us, the gallery viewers, seeing our distorted image disorientingly reflected back to us in red, he asks us ‘how do we see ourselves, and how do others see us as rejected Spanish artists here and in Spain?’ José comes from Seville and has lived in London for fourteen years. He completed a degree in sculpture at Camberwell, University of the Arts in 2012, and has since exhibited at a number of venues across London. His work mixes sculpture with painting, and Pop Art and consumerist culture with high art, creating hybrid juxtapositions and humorous, contradictory assemblages. Through his sculptures, he urges us to speculate about the cultural values around us. His first solo exhibition, Colores, Dame Colores, is currently taking place at SHARP, 308-312 Brixton Road, and is running until 30th May.
josegomez_art@yahoo.co.uk www.josegomez-art.weebly.com
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VIVEKA GOYANES
Viveka describes London as a place ‘where two forces coexist in balance; this is the place where trends are born, an epicentre of constant fashion movement and renewal, but on the other hand, it is a place in which one can feel the fleeting character of existence thanks to exhibitions such as Death at the Wellcome Collection, cemeteries all over the city, and the huge amount of litter that act as vanitas.’ She sees a connection between fashion, Western society’s ‘dreams of eternal youth and psychological renewal’, and a subconscious fascination with the destruction cycle of the human body. The one-layer, hand-sewn Shroud designs were made to be ruined in an act of burial and held under wet soil for weeks, mirroring the way in which fashion ‘is produced to go out of fashion the next season and trends to be forgotten’. Viveka explains that ‘this cycle goes on and on, meanwhile putting more and more products into circulation.’
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Viveka’s work, created through her own fashion brand, Amoelbarroco, has been showcased at official fashion events and has won her a national design award and a local art prize in Spain. Her first solo exhibition took place at the Da2 Contemporary Art Museum in Salamanca in 2012. Finding it impossible to continue working as an independent professional in Spain, Viveka moved to London a year and a half ago, where she is continuing to work as a fashion designer. The global crisis and its relationship with the mass production and excess of commodities has served as the inspiration for her latest series of artworks.
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FÁTIMA MASOUD Fátima, now back in Spain, spent six months in London in 2011 and was part of the emergence of the UK branch of the 15-M (the Spanish Occupy movement). She describes herself as a feminist activist, part of the political left, and a nonprofessional artist. Her pictures are inspired by ‘the spirit of pessimism together with the idea of hope created by collective struggle […] as well as the need to denounce the consequences of the capitalist system.’
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LUIS MARTÍNEZ The Fighters! (We all are) project was conceived as a way of promoting small organisations and individuals who are not satisfied with the present state of society and are finding ways to fight for what they think is fair. The series portrays activists and volunteers of all ages, professions and backgrounds. Luis explains that ‘the bottom line is that we all have the ability to change the world around us. We can all do our bit to change society.’
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Luis left Spain in 2000 and moved to London in 2009. He has always been interested in different forms of social action but found that since moving abroad, he could no longer find the time to collaborate regularly with social groups. He therefore decided to use his photography skills to promote such organisations and their members and highlight what they do to achieve social change. Luis has previously exhibited at Oxford House and the Shadwell Centre. He is also exhibiting his collaborative project with Adriรกn Cuesta, Cambio de Planes.
larnal@gmail.com www.larnal.com
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VERÓNICA RESTREPO The ceramic works exhibited are part of Verónica’s experimentation in creating pieces that are irregular in shape, as a way of exploring the plasticity of clay. The pieces are presented as objects from another world using the pretence of an archaeological dig, as a reflection on the perception of ‘the Other’. Verónica wants to bring to our attention the relationship between the development of anthropology as a social science and the colonial period, with its notion of the ‘exotic Other’. She say that ‘human groups have always had a need to travel and exchange culture, through war or trade or survival, therefore culture is a product of time and space in which objects like ceramics have become the documents that reflect all this exchange and how it is codified for the future.’
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Verónica is an anthropologist, youth worker, facilitator and ceramicist. From Bogota, Colombia, she lived in Madrid between 2004 and 2005. Feeling that there were ‘no options’ in Spain, she explains that ‘life and other mysteries’ brought her to London. She has been here for nine years, and has taken on a wide variety of jobs, from waitressing, babysitting and bartending to community arts facilitation. During this period of what she describes as ‘survival adventures’, Verónica became a ceramicist. She experiments with different textures, shapes, techniques and concepts, and is interested in the idea of collectivity and creating solidarity through art. Through her work, she is ‘trying to reflect on the exchange of information as a day-to-day exercise: the way we interact with each other and the way we could change reality.’
misscoconut@gmail.com
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ANAHÍ RODRÍGUEZ Anahí aims ‘to induce different states of mind in the viewer’ through abstraction and choice of materials, textures and colours. She employs unusual materials, such as sands of different thicknesses, pigments and fabrics of varied textures. She explains that in these pictures, ‘matter is no longer seen as a means to represent an idea, but becomes the idea itself.’ She uses these materials to create ‘balanced and consistent structures’, which provide ‘real weight and
presence’
to
the
compositions. Another key element of her work is its mix of natural and manmade materials, with which she aims to show ‘a love for nature and for everything mysterious the natural world has to offer, along with an understanding of the world we created and in which we live.’ She leaves her work open to interpretation, with the viewer leaving with ‘more questions than answers.’ 28
Anahí moved to London eight months ago, but left Spain before the crisis, living in Denmark and the USA along the way, and gaining a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Visual Arts. She has recently opened her own online lifestyle collection shop and also undertakes painting and photography freelance projects. Reflecting on the crisis, she says, ‘I have always had my clients in Madrid. Things are harder because everyone needs art but people don’t even think about paying for it. There are fewer opportunities so you need to work things out on your own. In my case, I think the best solution is being an entrepreneur, opening my own business and from there, developing myself as an artist.’
info@anahirodriguez.com / www.anahirodriguez.com
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DANIEL SÁNCHEZ With Hojas de Prueba, Daniel is asking the question, ‘Can art be conceived unintentionally?’ Hojas de Prueba is a collection of abstract pieces of involuntary, anonymous, collective art, collected by Daniel from seven London stationery shops over the space of a year. With 2kg worth of stationery testing papers harvested, Daniel was able to play the role of curator, revising and judging the work of hundreds of involuntary actors, and choosing for display those sheets that he would like to have painted were he an abstract artist himself. Daniel has since returned to Spain,
currently
living in Madrid, and
describes
himself as a ‘nonprofessional artist, videographer
and
photographer, and a skateboard manufacturer.’ For this, Daniel’s first exhibition in London, he has been able to exhibit a project that he describes as ‘literally belonging to the city.’ danientokio@hotmail.com 30
MIGUEL SOUTO ‘The collapse of the financial system that supported the construction industry in Spain has left thousands of buildings ‘paralysed’: half-completed in some cases, vacant in others. New residential areas that have only just popped up are already ghost towns. Even within urban areas, it is easy to find abandoned plots as a result of the demolition of old buildings that are not then replaced by new ones. Ultimately, these buildings and urban spaces will remain in such conditions for a long time, integrated unexpectedly into the urban landscape.’ The Ephemeral Façades project offers a reflection on the city and its appearance through the façades of the buildings within it. Miguel expands the concept of the ‘façade’ to include secondary and temporary elements, such as scaffolding, fences and party walls, that form part of the construction process and merge with the external face of the building. Through these images, he wishes to capture the dialogue between former buildings, current ones and those that are emerging.
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Miguel, who spent many years in Albacete, Spain, has been in London for ten months. With higher education qualifications in Interior Architecture and Photography, he has come here to develop further his career in the fields of architectural photography and design. He is currently collaborating as Photographer in Residence at Sakula Ash Architects and has recently exhibited at the Canning Town Caravanserai urban space. He is part of the group Living in the Waste Land (LiWL) and is a founding member of the photography association ‘Puctum Foto’, both based in Albacete. Miguel does not feel that the recession has affected him negatively from a creative standpoint, although he observes that more effort now has to be put into marketing, seeking funding and contacting public venues. He says that one positive repercussion is that creatives are coming together to make and exhibit work: ‘La unión hace la fuerza’ (unity is strength).
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ART FOR ART'S SHAKE
The Art for Art’s Shake fanzine was born with the purpose of helping amateur artists to bring their works to the public, and to keep art ‘alive and shaking, moving, evolving and growing.’ The fanzine contains fiction, poetry, illustrations and music and is currently published three to four times a year. All contributions are voluntary and printing and expenses are covered by the fanzine’s ‘beloved sponsors.’
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Claudia SP Rubiño finished her degree in English Philology, focussing on Literature and Literary Criticism, in 2012. At the same time, she and Cristina Ahita founded Art for Art’s Shake in their city of Valladolid. This was also the year that Claudia moved to London to escape the recession, while Cristina moved to Grenoble, France. In this sense, the crisis has made their work more difficult, as they have to carry out all communication via Internet. However, Claudia explains that on the other hand, ‘it makes us more awake: we work harder because we want to reach our goals.’ Claudia also contributes to the magazine La Revista for the British-Spanish Society in London and is currently working on her first novel.
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MY BELLY IS MINE The coat hanger is the medial instrument used by women for self-induced abortions, and adopted by My Belly is Mine as the symbol of its pro-choice campaign and its protests against the Spanish anti-abortion draft bill, Gallardón’s Law (la ley de Gallardón). For this exhibition, the group have asked various artists, art students and craftivists to rethink the coat hanger and its symbolism, giving them carte blanche to transform it in any way they think appropriate. Thus the hangers may simply be decorative or conceptual or may allude, either explicitly or implicitly, to its gruesome medical function or to abortion.
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My Belly is Mine is a grassroots pro-choice activist collective, established in January 2014 by British feminists specifically to oppose and raise awareness of the Spanish antiabortion draft bill. Some of the collective’s members have personal links with Spain, but most are born and bred in London. In previous protests, the group asked members of the public to participate by decorating or adding messages to hangers that were then tied onto Hungerford Bridge in London.
mybellismine@gmail.com Twitter: @mybellyismine www.facebook.com/mybellyismine
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WOMEN OUT OF FOCUS WORKSHOP On Thursday 8th, we held the very first workshop of The Salon of Spanish Rejects, Women out of Focus. This workshop was organised in close collaboration with the pro-choice organisation My Belly is Mine, and led by Beatriz Gilino with the help of the potter, María Villaseñor. During the first part of the workshop, we experimented with clay in an activity that was entitled Gesto Protesta (Protest Gesture). Using María Villaseñor’s idea, we created unique clay pieces by the simple gesture of closing our fists in anger. All this anger that was translated into art was then accompanied by messages we wrote with our thoughts on the anti-abortion draft law in Spain.
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During the second part of the workshop, we had the chance to reflect upon abortion, women’s freedom and empowerment and the Spanish Ley Gallardón. All the thoughts and reflections we came up with were then expressed to create a super-arty ‘zine.
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To close the workshop, we all got into Cristina Cuevas’ installation Inside Me. Inside You., in order to write messages on the bellies of which the installation is comprised. This installation (as you know) aims to make people empathise with the feelings women experience when they are going through undesired pregnancies.
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WOMEN, CERAMICS AND MIGRATION WORKSHOP On the afternoon of May 9th we held a ceramic workshop with our amazing ceramist Verónica Restrepo. She illuminated us about the history of ceramics and the development of clay techniques in order to reflect about different migration aspects. As Verónica beautifully described it, we started our “negotiation” with clay. We explored the pitching technique together with our creativity. While we were waiting for our pieces to dry, we got the colours ready. The result was great! Every piece of ceramic was a testimony of our life history. It was a very therapeutic, inspiring and revealing session. Our youngest participant decided that she wanted to become a ceramist!
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CENSURA GRUPAL WORKSHOP Our third workshop was Censura Grupal. The inspiration for this workshop was the Gag Law in Spain, which introduces steep fines for activists who take part in unauthorised protests, publish images of the police or interrupt public events. Led by our ‘reject’ Daniel Sánchez and textile artist Sarah Knight, we experimented with both censorship and freedom of expression on canvas. Each one of us created our own colour, which we then used to express ourselves. If someone did not like our ‘art’ it was then covered with black paint, i.e. censored. In order to enjoy freedom of expression, we then designed patterns which were used to paint freely on another canvas.
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SPANISH ART PUPPETS WORKSHOP María and Jessica of Lon-art.org ran a Saturday morning workshop for children, creating puppets inspired by famous Spanish artworks. From Velázquez Meninas with sparkly dresses to fire-breathing Gaudí lizards, the kids really showed their talent!
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ART CIRCUS WORKSHOP On the morning of May 10th, Lola Baro and Rosa PÊrez led our Art Circus workshop for children‌ and we all went jugglers! We made our own juggling balls with balloons by filling them up with couscous! We were then ready for delicious juggling. We started by simple exercises, and little by little, we got to do more difficult ones. It was so much fun!
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE WORKSHOP
In the sixth workshop, with our ‘rejects’ Luís Martínez Arnal and Adrián Cuesta, we dived into the world of photography for social change.
During the first part of the workshop, Luís and Adrián talked about different photography projects that aim at putting social issues in the ‘spotlight’. During the second part, with our heads full of ideas, we experimented with different photography techniques in order to capture each other sending our own social message to the world.
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HABLA DE ARTE WORKSHOP Our last workshop was attended by learners of Spanish from the Meetup group ‘Spanish Tutor in London’. Participants discussed current social issues in Spain in the target language while looking at the artists’ work. They also created protest banners and some pages for a fanzine in Spanish that will soon be available online.
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MINI-ZINES BY ART FOR ART'S SHAKE As you can read in our little bio, we are an independent publication which is commonly known as fanzine or 'zine, and our purpose here was to show the world of fanzines to the general audience and to give everyone the opportunity to create their own mini-zine. Art for Art's Shake usually contains poetry, short-stories, illustrations, photographies and music, but here we wanted our public to express whatever they wanted so in the following mini-zines, created by the visitors of the Salon, you will see short pieces of writing, mixed up with collages and even little comic strips. Enjoy!
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A big THANK YOU to Lon-art.org for giving us the chance to participate, we are very happy of having been part of the Salon of Spanish Rejects. And a special mention to Sarah Louise Knight, Rah Saleen, Farah Muman and Javier Edo for stopping by our table and for making this amazing little 'zines!
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