The artist Eva Escamilla exhibits ‘Valencia in Silk’ at the Mercado de Colón and shows that it is possible to get out of ‘La Dana’ with the orchard as a protagonist. Eva Escamilla created Ensedarte in 2006 in order to turn feelings into colours on silk with Valencia, architecture, ceramics, nature and flowers as a constant inspiration. However, on 29 October her house was destroyed and she lost her car during ‘La Dana’. This week, she inaugurated the exhibition ‘Valencia en Seda’ at the Cervezas del Mercado.

There is a framed silk scarf showing the mosaics of the ‘Estación del Norte’ and with which many people will be able to help Eva to recover. The scarf pays homage to Valencia, it has the date of the Dana engraved on it, as well as the thanks to all the volunteers with the phrase ‘el pueblo salva al pueblo, tots a una veu,’ in memory of the floods that marked our Community.  That is why it will be the focus of this exhibition, which will remain on display until next January and which, as well as filling the Mercado de Colón with colour and hope, will show the most authentic art and will help to raise awareness of the importance of the Valencian market garden and its conservation.

In addition to the Mocador Solidari, the exhibition also features the original illustrations created by Eva Escamilla for the garden game (https://www.juegodelahuerta.com/). A game created during the pandemic by three friends from La Forn D’Alcedo, Miquel Minguet, Miguel Angel Lambies and Carolina Castellar, which is sold online and in stationery shops, and in which players have to manage to grow and harvest three crops to win, something that is complicated by animals, theft, storms… but all the problems are solved from the point of view of agroecology, without chemical fertilisers and with a lot of humour.

Both the illustrations and the mocador will be on sale to help Eva get her life back on track, to continue recovering the richness of silk in Valencia, with original pieces that are an affordable luxury and in which she applies techniques as diverse as painting and manual printing, batik, felting, shibori and dyeing in silk, but also in felt. “The energy of local festivals, the beauty of the huerta, the traditions, landscapes and ceramics of Valencia are my source of inspiration“, explains Eva, who adds: “This exhibition has been a shot of energy in a particularly complicated moment and I hope that many people will enjoy it and share it too”.

Las Cervezas Del Mercado – Colón

Carrer de Jorge Juan, 19

L’Eixample

46004

Valencia

More info: https://mercadocolon.es/comercio/las-cervezas-del-mercado/

Report by ‘24/7 Valencia’ team

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