June 20 – 24, 2023
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Silosi [Danavski kaj 46], BELGRADE
WALLS OF HOPE
Claudia Bernardi [Argentina] AND PARTICIPANTS
The Art and Human Rights Festival of DAH Theater has invited Claudia Bernardi to apply her methodology of painting murals with the community in Belgrade.
Through the creation of joint murals, public art projects, urban interventions, etc., the focus of this art project is to give a voice to the community – to express their preoccupations or traumas, to participants who have survived political or
other violence, those who have been forgotten or deliberately silenced.
The Perquin Walls of Hope Art School is an international project in the field of art and human rights for education, conflict resolution, crime prevention, diplomacy building, community development and preservation of historical memory. Started
in El Salvador, now known as the "Perquin Model", this initiative has been successfully implemented in Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Switzerland, Germany, Northern Ireland and the United States.
mural authors participants
Ivana Gorunović, Katarina Drenjanin, Ivana Samolov, Aleksandra Krivacević, Anastasija Pantić, Elena Protić, Vesna Marković, Anna Belan, Tatiana Kislitsa, Maria Avdeeva, Anđelka Jovanović
Claudia Bernardi [project author and artistic director]
Claudia Bernardi is a graphic and installation artist, oriented towards working with communities, creating at the intersection of art and human rights. Born in Argentina, Bernardi herself experienced the terror of the military junta (1976−1983), which
led to 30,000 "missing" (desaparecidos). Bernardi has worked with victims of political violence in Latin America, Europe and the United States for more than thirty years. In 2005, Bernardi founded the Perquin Art School, Walls
of Hope in El Salvador, a community-based and collaborative art initiative that reaches children, youth and adults. Bernardi is a professor of community arts and diversity studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco,
USA.
Photography: Djordje Tomic












