Within the program prepared by the Department of Equality on occasion of the International Day against Gender Violence, from today various buildings in the old town of Calp display 10 canvases that represent 10 windows with scenes of gender violence in the home.
With the premise that almost 60% of fatal victims of gender violence lived with their attacker, this project seeks to give visibility to this type of gender violence that is hidden behind the four walls of the home. The initiative invites you to look through these windows at a reality in which there are invisible victims who hide their situation and where violence occurs that is difficult to detect, which goes unnoticed even by their neighbors.
The canvases simulate a window through which you can see scenes of shouting, crying, arguments or attacks and each of them is accompanied by a phrase that invites reflection on gender violence. The phrases highlight data such as that 32,644 women were victims of gender violence in 2022, that 51 women were murdered until October 2023, that false reports of gender violence represent 0.006% of the total or that 20% of young people denies that gender violence exists and believes that it is an ideological invention. This is data from the State Attorney General's Office and the National Institute of Statistics.
The “From Doors Inside” initiative can be visited in the old town until mid-December and is part of the State Pact against Gender Violence. The Councilor for Equality, Itziar Doval, has visited this project and has pointed out that “within all the programming for the 25N, this initiative would stand out for its originality, a circuit has been created through the old town with different windows that show different images and texts based on updated statistics that invite us to reflect on this type of gender violence that is so difficult to detect."