Tuesday 28 May from 6pm, CHEAP will be a guest of TFQ workshop in Ravennain the spaces of Spartaco Social Center: we will present the book DISOBEDITE with generosity together with the collective, as well as having a dialogue with Johanna Toruño, the artist behind the Unapologetic Street Series project.
Tuesday 28 May | open door 6pm – presentation 7pm
CSA Spartacus | Via Chiavica Romea 88 | Ravenna
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Johanna Toruño is an artist born in El Salvador and founder of the series Unapologetic Streetwho uses the streets as a public platform and context for sharing his work.
His images and statements are often accompanied by lush flowers, celebrating the queer communitythe working class and people with migratory background.
Through his work, Toruño challenges social norms and places messages of self-determination at the center of his posters.
Using a soft aesthetic with colors that remind her of home, Toruño conveys narratives for her audiences that invite decolonize yourself in accessible spaces. His political and social messages highlight central themes for overcoming norms, with the desire to re-semantise public space in terms of collective liberation.
Johanna is a TED speaker and lecturer at universities such as Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and others. Johanna’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, NPR, Nylon, and more.
Johanna lives and works in Los Angeles with her partner and 2 dogs. If you’re not putting up posters, you’re cooking.
