The presentation “#8M Visual Manifestos” was exhibited at the National University of Cuyo, in Mendoza. It had generated a confrontation with the Church.
A group of people entered the National University of Cuyo, in Mendoza, this afternoon and destroyed the feminist art exhibition that had generated a confrontation with the Church.
It is about the exhibition “#8M Visual Manifestos” that showed different pieces that are exhibited the crucifixion of Jesus depicted with the body of a naked woman and a vulva that pretends to be an image of the Virgin Mary, the Mendoza newspaper Los Andes reported.
The images generated controversy in the religious community, which over the weekend came out to denounce that “they exercise a symbolic violence on Christian religious signs”.
On Sunday the Archdiocese of Mendoza had launched a harsh criticism against the art exhibition, organized and exhibited at the National University of Cuyo, as a result of a series of works that “seriously injures our religious convictions.”as expressed by “numerous people from the university community and faithful in general”.
The controversy began with the exhibition of teachers, students and graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNCuyo, within the framework of the month of Women, which seeks to contribute to the establishment of a reflective look from art on patriarchal society, among other objectives, according to its organizers.
This Monday afternoon a group of people who had gathered to protest against “#8M Visual Manifestos” entered the university building and He went in to destroy the ceramic pieces. According to witnesses, “several people, mostly men, entered the annex of the rectory breaking everything in front of them, painting the walls and pieces.”
The exhibition was inaugurated on March 7 with the participation of 36 students, teachers and graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Design. Originally aimed to show works with “a critical look and vindicate the conquests of rights”, twelve page of the house of higher studies.
“But the sample provoked our sadness and indignation, since it contains elements that, from the cartoonish, exert a violation on Christian religious signs,” says the statement from the Archdiocese of Mendoza. “We think -he continues- that the University has to be an open and plural space where, as in a true cultural laboratory according to Pope Francis, the grammar of dialogue is exercised that generates a true culture of encounter”.
Cristina Pérez, one of the authors of a work, pointed out: “The interpretations of a work can be infinite, that is what art consists of. Each interpretation responds to an internal world and the judgments have to do with those personal experiences,” she defended herself. the artist who made the piece “The wake of the cross”, which was highly criticized.
After the destruction, Sergio Rosas, secretary of the University Extension of Visual Arts of the University of Cuyo, stated: “Everything is filmed, each person is recorded who participated in this vandalism”.
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