The emotions caused by the confinement due to the pandemic surfaced in the 2022 Women’s Hall

As part of the commemoration of Women’s Day, which is remembered every March 8, The House of Ecuadorian Culture, nucleus of Guayas, inaugurated the Women’s Hall entitled on this occasion women in pandemicwhose pieces precisely reflected the emotions that emerged during the confinement that resulted to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Tonight, through a live broadcast on Facebook Live, they met the art contest winners. The jury was made up of artists and cultural managers Paola Almeida, Carla Bresciani, Diana Ponce and Johanna Mesa, president of the hall. They made their decision on Friday, March 4.

The first place was obtained by Guayaquil Maria Fernanda Man Ging Quinterowith his work Prelude, with dimensions 120 x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas. The judges applauded her ‘excellent tessitura’. “The work clearly shows us a collective feeling from the confinement, the hope and the different disorders that we all feel at this time.” This piece will identify the Hall, which will be open throughout the month of March.

In addition, it was decided to award three honorable mentions.

The first was awarded to Kelly Gualsaqui Valladaresfrom Loja, who presented Indian child, divine infant, in acrylic. “Piece selected for the technical handling and graphic expression that shows the resilience that we developed in those days. The embrace of hope feels like a magical vision within the chaos that we live in”.

Second place went to Kimberly Yagual Aguilar, with his work Recover soon, with the technique of embroidered hair on a napkin. “His ingenious creativity captivated us, the title, the phrase and the feeling of the graphic gives us that poetry that few of us perceive in the running of the bulls. The fact of using her hair as part of the piece, that shared intimacy, that subtle conception of the work, we believe is pertinent to be voiced”.

Finally, the last honorable mention went to Nikita Felix Galarza profiled with Rethinking my memories strengthens me, eternal loop, worked in acrylic. The evaluators chose this creation for recreating “that nostalgic pop that many young people felt in those days”.

As president of the Guayas core House of Culture, the artist and doctor in cultural management Martha Rizzo remembered that the room was called Women in the pandemicbecause “art as a discipline becomes the maximum force of creativity, with a transformative potential at the individual level, generator of bonds, enabler of new perspectives, channeler of shared sensitivities, desires and needs”.

He added that “as a spokesperson for culture and social imaginaries, human ingenuity, beyond art is a social and political catalyst that questions and challenges key issues that affect us all today.”