00:00The participation of women in art has always been so visible,
00:06and I believe that projects like this, or those that have been generated lately,
00:11have to generate more impact socially.
00:17I say that graffiti has some kind of gender,
00:19but there is no need to leave that there are some divisions between men and women in art.
00:27Well, I don't know, in our childhood or, I don't know,
00:30before we always infunded the fear that we can't go alone on the street,
00:36that we care about the street.
00:38This, in some way, also is a way to empower us and also to live the street without fear.
00:45My art is always confused with the of a man,
00:49so they are very much underestimated by being a girl.
01:05My name is Jeffrey Carrillo, I am an anthropologist at the National University.
01:09I have been working for five, almost six years, with the Bogota Graffiti Tour.
01:14Women in urban art are a minority, really.
01:18In the world of urban art and graffiti, I would say that only 10% of the population there are
01:23women.
01:24It's normal that women in the Colombian society grow with fear,
01:27with fear of men, with fear of the street, with fear of the night,
01:31because if something happens, the guilt will always be of them.
01:35The society will always be ready to jump to blame the victim instead of the victim.
01:39And that makes things that in society are more prohibited for women than men.
01:45The graffiti is one of those things.
01:47My name is Enel Graffiti, SDR.
01:50My name is Pilares Milena.
01:51I started in graffiti for about 10 years, for the music rap.
01:58I am Ornella Munar.
02:00I am a teacher in art plastic and visual arts.
02:03I study at the University of St. Albbran,
02:05I am from the Faculty of Arts,
02:08I am from the Faculty of Arts.
02:22I am from the Faculty of Arts.
02:46to boys in the street.
02:49It's not only the police,
02:51but there are a lot of risks
02:52that men, of course,
02:54can be reduced a little by being men.
02:57In some spaces,
02:59I have felt
03:00that some boys
03:02are consciously machists
03:04and girls too.
03:05I think that the machism is still there
03:08and that makes
03:11some times
03:13affect
03:14the work dynamics.
03:15They always think
03:17that my work is for a young man
03:19and people get closer
03:20and it's also a bit gross
03:23because they say,
03:24you did this and you
03:25see that I'm doing it.
03:29They do it a lot
03:31for being a young man.
03:32They define them more for their relationship
03:34with men than for themselves
03:36as individuals.
03:37I think that in that community,
03:39women have to face
03:42the sexism that is outside
03:44but also the sexism that is inside.
03:46And that sexism inside
03:47is the one that almost no one speaks.
03:51It's always important to talk about
03:54the participation of women
03:56in the art in general,
03:57in the history of art.
03:59It has been invisible.
04:01It has not had,
04:02a lot to say,
04:02that representation
04:03to be applauded.
04:08That also
04:09has generated
04:09women's spaces
04:11like,
04:12is also a necessity
04:15that the graffiti has to feel like the same in a space, because they should feel, I think,
04:21that in the mixed spaces with men, they don't give the prevalence or the equality that they should have.
04:27I've had some shocks with events or something like that,
04:33where, for being a woman, they say, hey, come to this event.
04:37So, one says, is it only for being a woman or for the work that one does?
04:41It's more than all, personally, it's more than all that.
04:48My name is Catalina Rodríguez.
04:51I'm the head of plastic and visual arts at the District of Artes.
04:57The proportion between men and women artists in that field
05:03is a little unbeatable.
05:06There are 19 local spaces of urban art,
05:10which are all coordinated by men.
05:13And there is one person,
05:14who is the representative of the District of Graffiti Mujer.
05:19In all ways, we, from IDARTES,
05:22we have, in the last three years,
05:26we have tried to get closer to the District of Graffiti Mujer.
05:32And, for example, the last year,
05:34in the middle of the pandemic,
05:35we did a project with that table,
05:38only with women.
05:39And that kind of gesture has effect
05:42on the applications we receive
05:44by women, urban artists.
05:47If there are proposals,
05:49and those proposals are valuable,
05:52and interesting,
05:53and are thought and presented
05:57by women,
05:59it's fantastic.
05:59Many women and girls have been able to
06:04incursionate in something
06:05that before was only a field
06:07for men,
06:09and those girls have started
06:10with other girls and so on.
06:12We have to give those spaces
06:13to the girls of participation
06:15and I think that
06:19that will make it more diverse
06:21the art that we all experience,
06:26consume,
06:26we see, we enjoy.
06:28Maybe we didn't have the relevance,
06:31but we've always been there.
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