He doesn't know how to rain. Unevenly in the DANA of the 2024 curated by professors Antonio Ariño (UV) i Jose Luís Cueto (UPV), Life, death i LIFE paintings of Xavier Ferragut and we will go out. Street Art with works by Dones de Picanya on the balconies of CMRPeset, are the three proposals that have as their starting point the DANA of the 29 October 2024.
How long has it been one year since the arrival of DANA and the serious consequences in our territory and the death of 229 personas, according to official figures, The Rector Peset Residence Hall of the University of Valencia joins the multiple civic and institutional initiatives with three commemorative proposals under the title “29.oct.2024. Any, Dany, DANA”
In the Wall room “He doesn't know how to rain. Unevenly in the 2024 DANA” Professors Antonio Ariño (UV) and José Luis Cueto (UPV) Images are proposed that reflect how social inequalities place people in situations of very different vulnerability to threats of natural origin., and disasters and catastrophes, How was the DANA and, therefore, They affect each other in very different ways.. In neighborhoods like Xenillet, a Torrent; the Rabal Algemesí, and Orba en Alfafar (popularly known as Alcosa Park), We realize that the effects of DANA 29 of October of 2024 were not the same in these urban areas as in other parts of the respective cities. This exhibition is the result of the field work that Ariño Villarroya, and Cueto Lominchar began months after DANA visiting these neighborhoods, focusing their attention on educational centers.
Xavier Ferragut (Algemesí,1964) introduces us “Life, death i LIFE” a collection of paintings created with mud from the flood as an essential material base, with different textures and mixes, pigments and binders, and generated in the weeks following the overflow of the Magro in Algemesí from the experience of a large number of totally contradictory feelings and sensations, in your words “to end up completely exhausted, with strength to the limit, and also hopeful and renewed with the strength of so many volunteers who have been by our side” and complements “These paintings are first of all, a need to draw from within and express what one feels, a willingness to communicate the enormous amount of contradictory feelings that should never have existed regarding the tragedy we have experienced, and that at the same time, They are essential for me because of so many lessons learned about solidarity., resilience and great appreciation.”
On the balconies of CM Rector Peset we can enjoy “we will go out. Street Art ” a selection of works that were damaged by the water from the ravine that entered the association's headquarters, where practically fifty percent of the works were damaged, as well as works from the last edition where artists were asked to reflect in their works the situation of women in DANA, especially in single-parent families. “Street Art” is an initiative of Women of Picanya that has been carried out for 13 editions around 8M and that were affected by the flooding of their headquarters due to the overflowing of the Poio ravine, but far from giving up, They wanted to continue highlighting the resilience in the face of this natural disaster and all the work carried out by volunteers, feminists and institutions. Hello Sanchez, president of Women of Picanya affirms “We had many works damaged by the flood, others we have lost, but the ones that we have been able to save that are stained with mud, We believe that they are more assertive and more beautiful”.
