“Cartography and Urban Memory”
Ellas Cuentan (together with its territorial variants Elas Contan, Elles Compten and Issas Contant) is a public art and community mediation project that transforms the urban fabric into a space for dialogue about collective memory. Through a participatory methodology, it moves women’s narratives from the private sphere into the public stage, using the environment as a canvas and women citizens as co-authors to rewrite the history of different places through their perspectives. The intervention unfolds through large-scale portraits displayed on balconies and video art pieces that recover testimonies of anonymous heroines. This living archive, transferred into an interactive emotional map on Google My Maps, uses contemporary art as a tool for historical recovery and social transformation.
Installation / Performance / Video
Artist: Monica Mura
Title: Ellas Cuentan (Elas Contan, Elles Compten, Issas Contant) — Year: 2016 – ongoing.
Mixed media: HD Video (1920 x 1080, 34 min, 25 fps, 2 audio channels). Photograph printed on flag fabric (100 x 150 cm). Photograph on voile and on paper intervened with pigments and golden threads, and installation with found objects of variable dimensions.
Action and mediation: Site-specific intervention in public space, performance with questionnaire and ballot box activation. Emotional cartography on Google My Maps and dedicated Instagram profiles.
Venues and milestones: Winning project at Kaldarte in Caldas de Reis (2016), residency at Museo MAC Florencio de la Fuente in Huete (2019), Arte Ambulante, A Colectiva, Pazo da Marquesa, San Sadurniño (2019), E ti que (de quen) vés sendo? at Iglesia de la Compañía in Santiago (2020), Arraixinis at Museo MARATE in Isili (2021), Il Filet di Bosa in Sardinia (2022), and intervention with 130 portraits for 8M in the Historic Center of Santiago de Compostela (2023).
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