An urban art gallery in which the skateboard deck transforms into a canvas of graphics and murals full of colors and rebellious identity. The Centre d’Art Contemporani Can Sisteré has inaugurated the exhibition WooSkateArt. Women paint skates, about graffiti and skateboards. Two elements that have shared space in the skater aesthetic with street art in public spaces, and which now hosts the art museum of Santa Coloma de Gramenet.
It is an exhibition by the artist Glòria Ortiz, also known by her artistic name “Ejant Glò”, with 25 other collaborating women who have participated in the exhibition. Until June 21, Can Sisteré will host this urban art exhibition that proposes a visual journey through the different themes, techniques, and sensitivities unique to each artist.
The inauguration coincides with the sixth edition of WooStreetArt, which will be held next May 23. An outdoor event in which different graffiti writers and muralists also participate, since 2021, and which is increasingly consolidating itself as a reference gathering for artists.“It is a festival where women artists and women graffiti artists fill with color and art the free wall we have in Santa Coloma” explains Glòria.
The WooStreetArt was born with the aim of making urban women artists known, and encouraging with their example other girls and young women who have ever wanted to approach a wall, “but haven't quite decided, especially because it's a predominantly male environment”, narrates the exhibition's curator.
