Failure attacks with a message: mutilation of a vagina and theft of 'ninots' from homeless people

• Fallas Destroy the genital area of ​​the figure of a naked woman in a falla in Valencia

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The

are accompanied by elements of satire and denunciation in their monuments, from ingenuity and grace but also as a way of reflecting on current controversial issues, which sometimes puts them in the crosshairs of the intolerant.

This is the case of the experimental monuments of the

and

commissions , which have suffered attacks and robberies.

In the first case, her failure represented the body of a seated and naked woman with which the artist

, under the slogan 'Vita Activa', wanted to represent the female anatomy "from its power and beauty", away from the image erotic and pornographic.

"After all, we were all born from a vagina and we have been fed by breasts, I don't think it was offensive," reflects the artist.

However, early Thursday morning, a group of young people kicked the genital area to pieces in an attack in which many feminist groups have seen an expression of sexist violence.

"In part it surprises me, not because I don't know that there is this aversion to showing the naked body of women, but it amazes me because precisely with this flaw I was talking about the need to break the taboo of censoring bodies", explained this Valencian artist.

The vagina area was destroyed and the artist has only been able to clean it up.

Despite everything, she has received one of the

for the most egalitarian and diverse fallas.

'Ninot' which represents a person sleeping in the street.EM

Complaint of the homeless

It is not the only experimental flaw that has suffered intolerant attacks.

The participatory failure

wanted to focus on the reality of homeless people with a monument designed by the artist

under the title 'Violencia' and created together with the users of

.

16 hours after being on the street, two 'ninots' have disappeared and others have had to be removed due to neighborhood complaints.

The proposal showed cardboard with blankets on the ground, the 'ninot' of a person sleeping rough on a mattress or another sitting with a large sign asking for help, which were distributed through the streets of the neighborhood to propose an explained route denouncing the invisibility, violence and the difficulty to meet the basic needs of these people.

The initiative offers a clear invitation to the public to discover in an experiential way the different types of violence and see what interactions arose.

One of the ninots has disappeared and another was seen in a video on social networks where

.

"We knew that this could happen and it is part of the process. It has happened sooner than we expected, the truth. Reality has surpassed fiction and it helps us a lot to denounce the violence that people go through on the street. They were

, although they have generated a lot of uncertainty about whether they were real or not. And even so, they have been violated, "explains Reyes Pe.

Straw figure of the fault placed next to a supermarket.EM

However, in part they have achieved their objectives: to make reality visible and that the

not only received calls from neighbors complaining, but also from some concerned about the state of a person who was lying down and apparently did not move and who was a boy lying in a porch with his belongings and a bottle by his side denounced: "Not having resources to treat an illness such as an addiction is violence. Not being able to get support to get out of a situation of homelessness is violence."

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