Under the chords of turbulent times, a group of women is forced to confront the limits of their social role. After the strong impact left by the First World War, a generation of women was born, who entered the working world, transformed their way of dressing and relating to each other to claim a new place in the public space. This is what the artistic presentation "The Daughters of Jazz" shows.
The exhibition "The Daughters of Jazz" by Omar Ayyashi is presented in the context of the 40th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, which, in collaboration with the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID), pays tribute to the female voices of the 20th and 21st century who dared to rebuild a more just and egalitarian world.
The inauguration of the exhibition took place in the main lobby of the Carlos Fuentes Bookstore of the Public Library of the State of Jalisco 'Juan José Arreola', which celebrates 7 years since its opening, and was attended by the president of the International Film Festival in Guadalajara (FICG), Guillermo Gomez Mata who thanked the authorities who were at the event, the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, as well as the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
"This collaboration," says José Trinidad López Padilla López, "symbolizes the union of two worlds deeply committed to culture, cinema, words, memory, the present, artistic creation and free thought."
Verónica Mendoza, director of the Carlos Fuentes Bookstore, thanked the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) for allowing "Las Hijas del Jazz" to be hosted in its facilities and for continuing to promote the Carlos Fuentes Bookstore as a space for synergy and cultural encounters.
Also present was Omar Ayyashi, who shared with the public a bit of the experience of the 2 years of work he put into the exhibition and how he sees more than an exhibition, but more of a tribute to all women from "Las sin sombrero" in Spain to the women of the 21st century.
"Las Hijas del Jazz' is born as a tribute in its value and sound to the women who between wars, social dictatorships and taxes reached their voice, their bodies and their ideas. They did it from the sidelines, from their "trench", from the screen, some with a name and many without it, but all of them indispensable", shares Ayyashi.
The exhibition features 36 photographs of women such as Cecilia Suarez, Clara Galle and Victoria Luengo who lend their names, voices and faces to those women who did not have them to take the public through a century of rebellion with references to María Zambrano, María Teresa León and Gabriela Mistral. Each of the photos has a QR code which will take the viewer to listen to the women on their devices narrating fragments, love letters or poems. It will be housed in the gallery of the Carlos Fuentes Bookstore of the Public Library of the State of Jalisco 'Juan José Arreola' and can be visited from June 6 through July 30.
Location: Carlos Fuentes Bookstore of the Public Library of the State of Jalisco "Juan José Arreola" (Biblioteca Pública del Estado de Jalisco "Juan José Arreola").
Date: from June 6 to July 30