About the project:
Six days for a Rainbow appears in light of the invisibility of the increasing violence against a specific population: the violence against the freedom of being who you are. Through one painting a day, the project creates a calendar registering homophobic and transphobic murders committed in Brazil in the 366 days of 2016.
Every day the artist makes a painting. If there were no homophobic or transphobic murders reported on that day, the canvas carries one of the colors of the rainbow, following the sequence of colors from the flag of the LGBTQ movement. A rainbow is formed through six consecutive colors, starting with a red painting and ending in a violet canvas, symbolizing six days without murders. However, the formation of a rainbow is hindered every time there is a killing. In that case, a portrait or representation of the person, or persons, that were killed on that day is painted. There is a return to the attempt to make a rainbow in the next day without a murder, starting once again with red.
The images and portraits developed in the paintings come from following sites of projects that monitor this type of violence. Among them are: “Quem a Homotransfobia matou hoje?” and “Rede Trans Brasil” that report cases in Brazil. Another site is “Europe Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) that collects and analyses murder reports of transgender and homosexual people around the world. From 2008 to 2014 they documented 1,731 homicides. Among these, 689, or 40% of all the murders in the world happened in Brazil.
Links:
https://seisdiasparaumarcoiris.wordpress.com/
http://seer.ufrgs.br/RevistaValise






