It is Echeverri’s way of telling the millions of raped and abused women in the world that their situation hurts.
A vagina that bleeds, with the names of Jineth, Diana Fernanda or María Jovita, women who have suffered sexual violence, written on their lips. Background sounds Never again trapped, rather free, strong, divergent, with the voice of Andrea Echeverri, leader of the Colombian band Aterciopelados.
It is part of Calvarian ovaries, a project by Echeverri, which mixes ceramics, made by the artist, and three new songs by Aterciopelados with Vivir Quintana, The Girl and Las Añez, who cry out against sexist and sexual violence, in an exhibition in the Cloister of San Agustín in the center of Bogotá.
It is Echeverri’s way of telling the millions of raped and abused women in the world that their situation hurts. “It hurts me, I am with you and I am convinced that this society needs a root change,” she says.
“Calvarian ovaries it is a song of sorority with the victims of sexual violence in Colombia and the world ”, explains the artist, who leads one of the most famous alternative rock bands on the continent.
Colored eyes with tears, and many vaginas, which are really mirrors where visitors can reflect and feel a little more on the skin of women who have suffered abuse.
It took Echeverri two years – a fruitful pandemic and confinement, he says – to turn, mold and paint them, while composing the songs. Ovaries, It is not violated and Mourning.
According to the Institute of Legal Medicine, 5,644 women were victims of sexual violence and 23,679 of intimate partner violence between January and October, numbers that far exceed the data for the same period of the previous year when they were 12,850 and 22,151, respectively.
“Every time I listen to one of those stories, I leave, I feel the pain of those people,” says the artist.
The idea is to give visibility to the stories of Rosa Elvira, Jineth or Alison by “accompanying them and crying with them for such a horrible tragedy.”
“I think that we all have to build guilt, shame in the face of acts of violence,” says the 56-year-old singer, who points directly to men and to reverse the concept of masculinity.
“I love those imageries as new aesthetics that create a guilt around that and begin to build a new man, which is what we need, a dignified, respectful man,” he adds.
With Aterciopelados, which has more than 30 years of experience, has always tried to change – intentionally or unintentionally – the way of making music, with feminist, anti-war lyrics.
“One knows that its effect is not massive, but I am sure that many think differently because they have listened to us all their lives,” says Echeverri, to whom women have come saying that thanks to their songs they have managed to get out of an abusive relationship or realize the reality. (I)
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