Cultural Center “Sigulda Devons“Until December 10, there is a unique large-format photo exhibition” Icons – an exhibition on the right to be “in Sweden, created by one of the largest and most influential photo museums in the world – Sweden’s” Photographic “.
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The exhibition has been created in collaboration with the Glada Hudik Theater, which also features actors with mental disabilities. It is these people who are photo models who have found themselves in the images of various iconic characters, thus gaining an opportunity to take their place in world art, society and history.
“Diva, Policeman, Rebel, Queen … Each image speaks with its own, saturated message. Culture creates icons that we, members of society, dream about and build relationships with. Icons tell about the eternal struggle of human existence between hope and despair, dreams and reality, limitations and opportunities, “write the creators of the exhibition.
Thanks to the work of the Glada Hudik troupe, people with intellectual disabilities have taken their place on the theater stage and achieved considerable international success. At the Sigulda Devon Culture Center, the exhibition will be on the big stage of the Radix Hall. At a time when the stages have become empty, they are gaining the ability to be reborn in a new form, the representatives of the cultural center emphasize.
The Swedish Museum of Photography “Fotografiska” is one of the largest and most influential photo museums in the world. The museum always strives to address its viewers with socially relevant topics that make you think and encourage real change. Diversity, democracy and equality for all are important values that are highlighted in this exhibition, created by Swedish set designers and costume designers Helena Andersson and Linda Sandberg together with photographer Emma Svensson. The photo exhibition is a way to truly include a part of the society that we see so rarely in everyday life and which has historically always remained invisible, the creators write.
The exhibition is realized within the framework of the educational project “Children are not born with prejudices” – this is another initiative of “Glada Hudik”, from 2017 the organization “Riga City” Caring Child “” also participates in it. The project addresses primary school students, discussing exclusion, mobbing, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as meeting young people whose mental rhythms are determined by mental disabilities and thus raising awareness that different societies enrich and need each other.
In Sigulda, visitors to the exhibition can also read the book “Never stop to embrace!”, Which summarizes the findings of the actors of the “Glada Hudik” theater.
Exhibition “Icons – an exhibition on the right to be!” cultural center “Siguldas devons” (Sigulda, Pils Street 10) can be seen until December 10. The cultural center is open to visitors on weekdays from 10:00 to 19:00, and on Saturdays from 11:00 to 15:00. The visit is possible only in accordance with the sanitary protocol. Admission to the exhibition is free.
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