The donkey loaded with medals

Square

March 2015

200×150 cm.

Wool and paint on cotton canvas.

The donkey loaded with medals refers to an action that the artist Paz Muro carried out in 1975. She climbed on a donkey decked out as if she were a heroine and rode through the streets of the town while making a delivery of the medals she was carrying. In this way she made reference to the institutional decorations of the government to feminists of the postwar period, criticizing the falsity of these punctual recognitions, while in the day to day practices that perpetuate the repression of women within the patriarchal society continue to be established.

Places where it has been embroidered:

– Ontinyent (Valencia), day of the working woman. With the collectives “La Vall Violeta” and the assembly of women Merudes, born in the popular athenaeum “Ca la Mera”.

Click here to see more images of that day.



– Aielo de Malferit (València) in different places of the town: at the Municipal Market, the Hydroelectric Plant, at the entrance of the Town Hall and the Hospital de la Beneficencia.

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