PRESS RELEASE (4/08/2015)
Up to Friday, August 7, in the mosaic room of Doria Palace a Loano, you can visit the photo exhibition “Sahrawi. Beyond the Veil.” promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the’Fadel Ismail Association.
The photo exhibition of Claudio Compagni tells through images moments of daily life in Saharawi refugee camps in the Sahara Desert.
“Prevalent in the exhibition," explain the exhibition curators, "are images of women: women accompanying children, women picking up food supplies or the gas canister, packing a tent, women ministers or teachers or caregivers for the disabled or doctors, so not only engaged in family and domestic tasks, but also in public utilities and institutions.
In the “dairas” there are women's associations that address all community problems, from food distribution to the need for a dispensary.
Women along with children and the elderly, make up the majority of the population of the Refugee Camps as many men are engaged in military defense or abroad. Yes from the beginning of the exile, women have been the soul, the energy, the guide of life in the Sahrawi tent camps.
Impossible not to notice and not to feel at the same time the charm of their veils, their dances, their dark eyes peeking out intensely from the “mellafah”; women aware of the destiny of waiting that has invested them, waiting for their men, waiting for a better life for themselves and their children, waiting to return home to the liberated Western Sahara.
Claudio Compagni's photo exhibition is also a tribute to their courage.”
The exhibition can be visited daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m..
