The Argentinian street-artist Hyuro recently finished two new murals on the streets of Cotignola in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Located along two facades of a condominium in Via Roma, ¨L’Árzdora,” is the final installment of the project “From the museum to the landscape”.
About the Murals
Hyuro’s murals address the theme of the role of women, inspired by tradition but with an intent to break old-world stereotypes. The structure and composition of a family in Cotignola during the Eighteenth Century was marked by the lack of privacy due to a multigenerational family life, with a codified and accepted hierarchical structure and strict rules. In this regime, all women were almost treated as minors, and wives were always under marital authority.
Ironically, marriage was the only form of emancipation from paternal authority, however it still regarded the husband as the leader of the house. This meant that a woman’s first admission to a new family after marriage, the daughter-in-law, would be considered farthest to a household leader. In fact, they were often coined as “the last wheel of the wagon” in a family’s hierarchy.
Hyuro’s works often focus on women and blend political issues and surrealism that she creates in monochrome dreamlike compositions. Here, she’s done so by depicting a mother-in-law’s ritual to a new bride joining the family; welcoming the daughter-in-law “on the stairs with a big spoon”, offered as an assignment of domestic chores.
The mural’s title ¨L’Árzdora,” refers to the term “Árzdora” that is still used today. It defines women that wish to go beyond the assigned functions and show their skills in Romagna’s patriarchal society, one with an age old tradition that deems men as superiors.
About Hyuro
Hyuro is an Argentinian born artist best known for her black and white murals, paintings and drawings focused on visual expression.
Over the years she’s managed to create a name in urban art circles by blending politics and surrealist sensibility into dreamlike compositions. The characters she creates are dark, often of decapitated figures of dreary women, and animals, that suggest a message or a narrative but leave most interpretation up to the viewer.
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