For Gender Equality and Against Violence Against Women
Objectives, Call and Award Rules
As in previous editions, the Equality Unit of the University of Salamanca in collaboration with the Cultural Activities Service and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University already mentioned and the Junta de Castilla y León (Social Services Management), called in memory to Laura the “V LAURA LUELMO AWARD FOR CONTEMPORARY ART FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND AGAINST VIOLENCE ON WOMEN 2024.
The V LAURA LUELMO award for contemporary art seeks to promote equality between women and men and prevent and eradicate violence against women, paying tribute to Laura and to all women victims of this violence and to those who fight from different areas to achieve a real and effective equality.
The competition was held on July 22, 2024. Forty nine works from various forms of contemporary visual and plastic arts participated: painting, sculpture, drawing, engraving, photography or audiovisuals. The deadline for submitting them was from September 23 to 25, at the USAL Experimental Space (C/ Fonseca, 2. Salamanca).
Jury decision, award ceremony and opening of the exhibition
The Jury, which met together, selected the award-winning work and the two runners-up on October 2, 2024. The decision was made public on the USAL website, on the Equality Unit website, on the Cultural Activities Service website, and on the USAL Faculty of Fine Arts website.
On October 17, at a public act, attended by Laura’s family, the awards were presented to the award-winning artists: Montserrat Galán Ruiz, for “Love song (Vol.2)” (First Prize) and secondary awards to Almudena Sanchez Mata for “35 Silenced Lives”, and Andrea Periañez López, for “Saqquez 1999 – Tehran 16/09/2022”. At the end of this act, the inauguration of the exhibition proceeded.
Fragment of the winning work “Love Song (Vol.2), by Montserrat Galán Ruiz
