FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“I’m Gonna Get You..: Body,
Woman and Rupture” - “Si te cojo…: Cuerpo, mujer y rotura”
WASHINGTON DC –
September 30, 2018. Award-winning
artist Marta Pérez García announced today that her new installation against
gender-based violence entitled “I’m Gonna Get You..: Body, Woman and
Rupture” - “Si te cojo…: Cuerpo, mujer y rotura”will open on Friday,
October 5, 2018 at the Reeves Building in Central Washington D.C. (14thstreet
and U street NW).
The giant -30ft x 24ft- immersive installation
featuring over 160 artworks was awarded the DC Commission on the Arts and
Humanities 2018Public Art Building Communities Grant, and took a year to
complete.
Marta Pérez García is a
Puerto-Rico born and DC-based artist who is known for her powerful and colorful
prints and paintings. This installation, unique by its size, content and
process will open the month against domestic violence in Washington DC.
“Large swaths of contemporary
societies continue to disregard the overwhelming problem of gender-based
violence. Through this multi-media immersive installation, I want
to stimulate a reflection within the community on how gender-based violence has
become an integral part of society. Without using melodrama, simplifications or
moralization, I aim to create an aesthetic space that sheds light on how
gender-based violence particularly targeted at women has become an
accepted part of life, a never-ending feminicide” says Pérez García.
This installation intends to be a call to action
so that through art the community goes from being a silent witness to becoming
an active healer. The aesthetic space thus created is intended
to give a voice to women who have lived and continue to live in silence
with these acts of horror.
The Installation is located
inside the Reeves Municipal building, in the large atrium. Pérez García wanted
this installation to be hosted in a municipal building, where the public meets
the communal institutions as a symbol of the many facets of the problem, and of
the need to tackle the problem from all angles. The Reeves Municipal
building is located at 2000 14thStreet NW, Washington DC 20003. The
building is open to the public daily from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
About Artist:
Marta Pérez García holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Tyler
School of Arts in Philadelphia and has held teaching positions in the District
and at universities in Puerto Rico. She is an award winning printmaker (using
the reduction process). Her reputation also extends to painting and large
mix-media pieces.
Ms. Pérez Garcíaartwork
is represented in the permanent collections of museums in the US and Puerto
Rico, including the Library of Congress, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
(San Juan, PR), the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC) de Puerto Rico, and the
Institute of Puerto-Rican Culture (ICP) (San Juan, PR). Her pieces have
been acquired by prestigious private collections such as the Chase
Manhattan Bank, (New York, N.Y.), the Coleccion Reyes Veray, (San Juan,
PR), the Ateneo Puertorriqueño (San Juan, PR), and the Colección
Jaime Fonalledas, Plaza Las Americas, (San Juan, PR). Her artworks have
beenexhibited in Paris at the Salon Comparaison “Art en
Capital”, at the Grand Palais, in Miami at the Perez Museum of Art, and she
recently had a solo show at the Inter-American Development Bank Gallery.
Ms. Pérez García is deeply
involved in the arts and its propagation throughout the District through
teaching and leading public art projects. Her website can be found at martaperezgarcia.com and
she can be reached via email at artmartaperezgarcia@gmail.com.
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