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San Antón shows in its streets 10 portraits of faces of women in the neighborhood with the objective of making them visible and making them protagonists on the occasion of 8M, International Women's Day, as one of the activities organized by the Association of Women Lacemakers of Bolillo de San Antón in collaboration organized by the Department of Equality and the FAVA.

The Councilor for Equality, David Martínez, has said that it is about "reflecting women through varied and diverse photos that reflect anonymous faces, to give some prominence to those who day by day fight in their neighborhood to achieve equality."

The project emerged as the idea of ​​the president of the Association of Women Lacemakers of Bolillo de San Antón, Juani Martínez, who contacted the Cartagena photographer Pablo Sánchez to carry it out.

Both decided that the best idea to make these women visible was through their day to day.

As Pablo Sánchez points out, "it is necessary to make women and their jobs visible because they have been basic in Cartagena neighborhoods for a long time, in this case San Antón."

For his part, Juani Martínez, says he is clear that "women are always invisible, there is no talk of women of the 27th generation or the house of poets. That is why I wanted to make the women of San Antón visible."

In addition, it is important to show interculturality, "Moroccan and gypsy neighbors who have come to stay and that we must integrate into the neighborhood society."

Some of the works, which can be seen in places in the neighborhood such as the facade of the El Cuco Socio-Educational Center and El Casino de San Antón, on a large scale, reflect diverse women: gypsies, Moroccans, workers of the Women's Association, a doctor , teacher, president of the third age, among others.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena