CALL: WOMEN: secrets and confidences

ARTISTIC OPEN CALL - WOMEN: SECRETS AND CONFIDENCES BASES:
1. OBJECTIVE - This project, an Artistic Installation, aims to show new perspectives on being and feeling like a woman nowadays. Being a woman, besides being a biological fact, is a cultural and historical fact. The goal of this virtual open call is that other women dare to reveal their secrets and that the rest of women can be participants of their confidences in words or images, in order to foment the dialog between art and society.

2. PARTICIPANTS - All the creative women or feminine groups (artistic or not) will be able to take part, regardless of the age or nationality. Only 3 pieces max can be presented, whether individually or composing a series, like a triptych.

3. CHARACTERISTICS:

FORMAT: Each proposal must be presented in a ‘post card’ format, 10 x 15 cm.

THEME: The subject will be "Women: Secrets and Confidences", from the perspective of the modern woman.
There may be 4 axes as a base for your proposals:
- The maternity - the woman as generator of life.
- The woman as an object - valued only because she possesses a body, and it could be focused in several ways, as an advertising object, of consumption, of desire, of inspiration, of mistreatment, etc.
- The problematic of being a woman in today’s society – women’s daily life and their realities, with a lot of emotional connotations, which make women a powerful factor in the humanization of the society.
- Eroticism and female sexuality - without representing taboos, neither cultural nor social repressions.

TECHNIQUE: The technique to present the post cards will be free – the following artistic disciplines will be accepted: Painting, photography, drawing, digital art, mixed media and/or only text.


4. EXHIBITION – This Project will be presented in two ways:

- The virtual contributions will be exhibited online, through different art social networks that will be opened for this Virtual Open Call.

- The real Exhibition, that will be part of an art installation presented at Centro Cívico La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, and will also be part of a group show conformed by creative women as part of a celebration of The Woman’s Day. The opening of the show will take place on March 2nd, 2010 and will remain until the 26th of that same month.


5. PRESENTATION – Post Cards must be sent in an envelope by regular post up until February 19th, 2010. Works can be submitted anonymously or not, in which case the name of the artist must be displayed on the art piece so it is visible when exposed.
The envelope should be sent to:
Apartado 44
08921
Barcelona, Spain

6. SELECTION – All the Works presented should be selected, unless they don’t abide to the theme or format criteria, or in case that the proposal attempts to the dignity of people.

The participation in this open call implies the knowledge and acceptance of these bases.

The selected post cards will be part of the Colectivo Femenino Art-Esencia’s collection, for future exhibitions, because we will keep this call open for future shows.

This call is organized by: Colectivo Femenino Art-Esencia.
http://proyectoart-esencia.blogspot.com

For any questions, contact us at:
proyectoartesencia@gmail.com