Indirect traces of violence in children’s drawings

Peter, 10 years old He draws his father as a giant shouting and insulting his mother and himself., is represented on paper as two small, frightened characters. He says the image is repeated many times.

The doll representing him has a soccer ball next to him. “Pere plays football but doesn’t score. Violence erupts in every round of the game. He doesn’t want to play football and smiles to hide it. Separation of minors is commonisolating yourself from painful situations is a defense of your mind.”

This is ‘Where’s Gea?’ This is an excerpt from the fanzine that was part of the project. UPV reinterpreted drawings of male and female victims indirect violence and will be open to the public until Friday, May 6. The sample is then expected to be transported to the Radio City room in Valencia.

An initiative supported by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), in particular the Alanna association, professor Felicia Puerta together with psychotherapist Chelo Álvarez and filmmaker and victim of indirect violence, Samuel Sebastián, will continue with the presentation of a fanzine and audio-visual presentation. An animation workshop with victims of violence that will culminate in a short film, as Sebastián explains to this newspaper.

Stories like Pere’s are collected in the room where the atmosphere gets serious. it took. Flat. idea raising awareness and raising awareness about a fear that affects thousands of women and children and that the lives of dozens of minors in Spain have already been erased.

During the presentation, teacher Felicia Puerta, psychotherapist and head of Alanna Chelo Álvarez, students involved in the preparation of the exhibition, and filmmaker Samuel Sebastián intervened.

Second, she shared how her own mother, a victim of gender-based violence, had “grown up afraid to say what happened inside the house.” Therefore, “as the son of a woman who was a victim of violence, proud of the disappearance of fearand shows like this help make that grim reality visible”.

Source: Informacion

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