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This artwork is about the horrors of Female Genital Mutilation, which is the cutting and mutilation of female genitalia. The mutilations can entail of cutting off the clitorous, the whole labia, and/or sewing the labia majora together. When the labia majora is sewn together, it is reopened when the woman gets married. In many cultures the woman wont be able to get married unless they have FGM done on them, or the dowry will be much much less. For this piece specifically, I wanted to highlight the fact that it is literally done to children (normally aged 1-12) and that it is there own mothers that do it or consent to having it done even though they know the pain and horrors it, as it has been done to them too. I highlighted this by painting a baby with blood coming down, and the mother holding a needle and thread.

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"Apaga la tele" which mean "Turn off the tv" is a project based on the Social Outburst and human rights violation in Chile during 2019-2021. The owners of the television channels are the owners of Chile, and my project represents how the "normal citizen" lives their lifes under a smoke courtain in a different world of ignorance, when the problem is literally behind them, but is portrayed as almost a collective hallucination for the privilage ones.

TV businesses survive thanks to the sponsorship of large pharmaceutical and retail companies. Two days after the social outbreak, and with the military in the streets, the executors of all the television channels met with Interior Minister Andres Chadwik. The instance was criticized by workers in the television industry as representing the government's influence on the media that should report on the violence of state agents against protestors. During the social outbreak, they misinformed and tried to focus on riots and looting rather than on the brutal violence of repression, and for years they have given rise to fascist, classist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic characters that reproduce and normalize the structural violence of the system. Thats why, now more than ever is important to turn off the tv and use alternative media (not manipulated by state) to understand the real matter and the way they are taking advantage of your ignorance.

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Freedom of speech in Nicaragua. By Andrea Arcia

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Freedom of speech in Nicaragua. By Andrea Arcia

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My final artwork adresses the issue of freedom of speech in Nicaragua, since I feel identified with it, because living in a country under a dictatorship and where, as time has passed, censorship has not only affected the media but individuals thanks to the insane desire to hegemonize power through the submission of people. In Nicaragua it is forbidden to carry your own flag, to express your thoughts and even to make this type of art that exposes the reality of the govrment is considered a crime due to "it socavates the peace and stability of the county". We, students, have faced the rage of a goverment that intends to silence our voices and we have not only faced censorship, but death, torture, persecution and even exile.

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Indigenous art appropriation by museums 

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Indigenous art appropriation by museums 

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The topic I chose is about Latin American indigenous art appropriation by museums. In my opinion, this kind of artwork doesn’t belong in museums or to rich people, they truly belong to the people who created them. In addition, there has been illegal traffic of indigenous artworks for a long time, it happens because of the imbalance of power that exists in our society, which makes some people abuse the resources they have to buy these important artworks.

Many people visit museums without really taking into account the history and the cultural weight behind each of the works, that’s why we should take our time to inform our selfs before going to any museum.

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My artwork represents the feeling of helplessness and the internal struggle of being a victim of sexual harrasment, or sexual assault. It is meant to raise awareness about the pain that one can cause.

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My artwork is about organised crime in my country. To better understand the symbology: the squid with a skull is a symbol for mafia, as well as the fire (used to burn someone's house/shop if they do not pay money to the organisation). I decided to implement, on the man’s clothing, a count as to refer to the victims that add up every year, displayed as if they were something to be proud of.

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Mati Rilasciati - Artwork About A Social Justice Issue

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By, Frida Figueroa.
In the short film "Hijos del Maíz" I tried to portray the history and reality of indigenous people, who, due to the different historical events that have occurred in different locations around the world, are still affected by racism today. And how this becomes privatization of life, where living means being conditioned to a series of stereotypes and aggressions that hide behind the mask of "Historical Memory" of ladino or mestizo groups. Touching topics like the term mentioned before and the hope of a better future. In the document added to the folder, you can find more information about the symbolism.

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The main symbol that I used to depict the priorities of Mexico was the use of a balance that switches weight. Other elements like economy, security, patriarchy, intersectionality, nature, and violence are illustrated and labeled. The conflict between these two sides reflect how violence comes from misunderstandings and intolerance of ideas. A protestant and a police man are about to fight, but the viewer will not look at it, just the final message: to all those who fought for the right side, making a reference to the violence during protests phenomenon

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My Final Artwork is a commentary on School Shootings in the United States. The colage itself is honoring the lost souls from one of the biggest school shooting massacres from 2017 in the color orange which is the solidarity color of the school shootings and gun violence. The lively and vibrant background is made to represent childlike wonder and morn the childhood that the students were never able to have.

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Allegra Bortoni. The Ultimate Guide on How to Be a Woman

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Allegra Bortoni. The Ultimate Guide on How to Be a Woman

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The attached short film portrays a video illustration of what would be The Ultimate Guide on How to Be a Woman, a manual written by men that includes "rules" that are taught in an everyday life basis to girls and women on how to “stay safe”, “desirable”, and/or “ladylike”. However, these rules are most of the time immensely contradictory and full of sexism, misogyny, and rooted in patriarchal beliefs that perpetuate the oppression of women. These set of rules and beliefs not only limit women's behavior, but it also "makes them accountable" for any type of discrimination or aggression that they suffer. The victim becomes responsible of the assault for "provoquing it", since she could have "prevented" it if she had sticked to the rules.

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https://youtu.be/N0Znq_i8w5s
My artwork is about the hijab ban occurring in a lot of Western European countries, where hijabs are being banned from many educational facilities, government buildings, etc. A hijab is a religious head covering many Muslim women wear; these getting banned has a big effect on the freedom of religion as well as the body autonomy that Muslim women have. In this video, the hands represent the government taking away the hijab from Muslim women in order to "liberate" them from the Islamic "oppression", but are in fact just taking away the body autonomy of Muslim women.

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the topic I chose was inequality in educational system (in the Netherlands), where there is a lot of racial prejudice. This is the visual (simplified) representation of who are more likely to be or not be chosen chosen for a higher level of highschoolcourse (vwo).

-> what the dutch schoolsystem looks like:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Dutch_Education_System-en.svg/1200px-Dutch_Education_System-en.svg.png

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For my final piece, I chose to make a representation of the inner turmoil, being a victim of xenophobia can cause you to have. The symbolism I used was the animation being a representation of someone's inner thoughts, the menacing xenophobic protesters causing them to cower in fear, the person trying to reach out and constantly being avoided and finally the person giving up and hanging their head in defeat