Exposición fotográfica 'Soutoura' en Segovia

This exhibition comes to Segovia as part of the 4th Meeting of Women to Transform the World, a series of face to face conversations to show the reality of women in different parts of the world and from different areas. In this 4th Meeting, to be held from 14th to 23rd March in Segovia, Casa África provides the presence of Jenni Williams and Magodonda Mahlagu, two Zimbabwean female activists fighting for human rights in their country, together with the exhibition Soutoura, 28 photos of African women by the photographer Angel Luis Alda

Soutoura is an exhibition consisting of photographs of African women in their daily lives, which tries to change that image traditionally associated with tragedy and misery, to show their more positive and real face. This is a project that Casa África commissioned to the award winning photographer Angel Luis Aldai from Gran Canaria and that reveals the faces of dozens of women of all ages taken in Mali, Niger, Ghana and Ivory Coast on a six-month journey the artist made in 2008. An experience that according to Aldai, has changed his life. The colourful snapshots of the exhibition, curated by Catherine Coleman, independent curator and Chief Curator of Photography at the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, reflect all kinds of women, of all ages and from many social sectors, from students of the University of Ghana to peasants.

According to Coleman, the portraits of African women by Aldai are shown opening a trend of the concept of beauty not with an Eurocentric spotlight and show that beauty, which is both aesthetic and interior, in the faces and attitudes of anonymous women.

The exhibition can be visited from 14th March to 13th April 2014 in the Sala Expresa2 of the La Cárcel Centro de Creación, (Avda Juan Carlos I s / n. Segovia) during the following times:

From Friday 14th to Sunday 16th March: open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and from 5:30 to 9 p.m..
On Monday 17th March: open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 6 to 9 p.m.
From 18th March to 13th April: