Welcome to the Agents of Change art exhibition by Mobile Arts for Peace. This exhibition features artworks created by young people who participated in the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) project. They are young people's creative responses related to peace and issues that affect their everyday lives.
The exhibition features more than 100 works of art in total, created in various forms such as drawings, paintings, photographs, comics, songs, films and performances. The exhibition is split in virtual rooms to show work that took place in each of the four countries that our young participants live. As you enter the exhibition, you will first visit the room that displays artworks of young people from Indonesia. Moving to the next room, you will see the drawings/paintings of young people from Kyrgyzstan. The final room you will visit in this virtual space displays the artworks of young people from Nepal and Rwanda.
The artworks displayed have been created through a long process of ‘incubation’ and various techniques during the two phases of the MAP project. In the MAP phase one in 2021, young people identified problems that affect their lives using problem tree analysis facilitated by the MAP research team and attended arts-based workshops facilitated by cultural artists. Following that, in the MAP phase two (between January and May 2022), young people finally led their own arts-based research projects. The Agents of Change exhibition is the creative outcome of this process. The exhibition marks an on-going dialogue that is taking place between young people, teachers, cultural artists, policy-makers and researchers. It is a space that is not static but will be evolving as our work on arts and peacebuilding continues.
Our sincere appreciation to all MAP young people and MAP research teams in Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal and Rwanda! Your creativity is truly inspiring and your voice matters.
Enjoy the exhibition!
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This exhibition is curated by Vina Puspita
Exhibition team: Camilo Sol Inti Soler Caicedo, Koula Charitonos, Ellen Scott
MAP Principal Investigator: Ananda Breed
MAP in-country teams: Harla Sara Octarra, Anara Eginalieva, Tajyka Shabdanova, Anna Smirnova, Bishnu Khatri, Rajib Timalsina, Chaste Uwihoreye, Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo
