June 20 – 24, 2023.
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Silosi [Dunavski kaj 46], BELGRADE

WALLS OF HOPE

Claudia Bernardi [Argentina] AND PARTICIPANTS

DAH Teatra's Art and Human Rights Festival 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 voice to the community - to express their preoccupations or traumas, to participants who have survived political or other violence, to those who have been forgotten or deliberately silenced.

Perquin School of the Arts Walls of Hope is an international art and human rights project for education, conflict resolution, crime prevention, diplomacy building, community development and historical memory preservation. Started in El Salvador, today known as the "Perquin Model", this initiative has been successfully implemented in Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Switzerland, Germany, Northern Ireland and the United States.

participants, mural authors

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 artist and installation artist, oriented towards working with communities, who creates 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 "disappeared" (desaparecidos). Bernardi has been working with victims of political violence in Latin America, Europe and the United States for over thirty years. In 2005, Bernardi founded the Perquin School of the Arts, 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.