FeMale Image V, VI, FBVG, FeMale Image VII
FeMale Image VIII, FBVG, FeMale Image VII
June 2022 Too Young To Wed on Instagram
Today is the #BeBrave Global Day of Action, which spotlights the systemic corruption that enables the sexual abuse of children and adolescents. @BeBraveGlobal calls on the G7, world leaders, EU governments, and technology companies to make firm commitments to ending childhood sexual violence. Nine adult survivor leaders from G7 countries- India, Bolivia, and Kenya- are spearheading the #BeBrave G7 Petition with Change.org during the Global Survivors Action Summit, taking place on June 26-28.
Child marriage subjects girls to a lifetime of sexual violence. A girl forced into marriage is robbed of her bodily autonomy, and her social networks, her physical and emotional wellbeing, and her right to complete her education are all taken from her. Today, TYTW seeks to amplify these survivors’ courageous voices, ensuring that they are heard and honored in all global decisions that will be made during the Global Survivors Action Summit.
This magnificent painting by Fiona Broese van Groenou (FBVG) honors Boko Haram survivor and TYTW Leadership Scholarship Awardee, Hauwa. FBVG, from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is also a survivor and has dedicated years to destigmatizing sexual assaut through her series Faces of Rape. “I wanted to honor the ones who came out with their story and in that way, make the subject more discussable,” said FBVG. Learn more about her work at www.fbvg.art.
TYTW calls on you to be a part of the global community dedicated to ending child, early, and forced marriage and childhood sexual violence. Please share the #BraveMovement, and consider supporting child marriage and sexual violence survivors through the link in our bio.
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January 2022 FBVG in Art Guide | Kunstgids Artists
The Art Guide | Kunstgids Artists is published by Fransastic, and can be ordered at Fransastic on Instagram or at www.fransastic.eu
January 2022 FBVG Wishes
In 2022 FBVG will be working on a monument for those who were sexually abused
September 2021 FBVG in Art Guide | Kunstgids Amsterdam
The Art Guide | Kunstgids Amsterdam is published by Fransastic, and is available or can be ordered at Athenaeum, Libris, Rijksmuseum, Scheltema and websites like Ako, Bol.com, Bruna, etc.
January 2021 FBVG FeMale Image Wishes
5 June 2020 Donation Faces of Rape XXX
SOLD: Faces of Rape XXX, Hannah Gadsby, AUS, acryl on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2018. Half of the proceeds of the sale has been donated to Early EMDR research of Centrum Seksueel Geweld in The Netherlands (630 euro). June 5, 2020
March 2020 Photographs of FBVG in her studio
These photographs were taken by Lida Geers, accompanying the interview in the local Amsterdam East magazine IJopener, which was published in April 2020.
April 2020 Interview FBVG in the IJopener
FBVG was being interviewed by Lida Geers in the IJopener, a local Amsterdam-East magazine. Article in response to Faces of Rape, The Exhibition last January 25 &26 in Bagagehal Loods 6 Amsterdam.
The interview in the IJopener, April 2020.
27 March 2020 Donations Faces of Rape
When a painting of the series Faces of Rape is sold, half of the proceeds from the sale will be donated to an organisation the buyer has chosen. Four women of the portrayed Faces of Rape have founded organisations which fight against sexual violence. These are the Military Rape Crisis Center (FoR I, www.militaryrapecrisiscenter.org), Mukhtar Mai Women’s Organisation (FoR II, www.mukhtarmai.org), Nadia’s Initiative (FoR XIII, www.nadiasinitiative.org) and Dr Denis Mukwege Foundation (FoR XI & XXII, www.mukwegefoundation.org). The buyer can choose one of these four organisations but it’s also possible to donate to a research project of the Centrum Seksueel Geweld in The Netherlands, named Early EMDR (www.centrumseksueelgeweld.nl, www.earlyemdr.nl). All donations will be made public in this blog.
SOLD: Faces of Rape XXIV, N., MMR, acryl on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2018. Half of the proceeds of the sale has been donated to Nadia’s Initiative (630 euro). March 27, 2020
SOLD: Faces of Rape XVII, Pearl Mali, ZAF, acryl on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, 2017. Half of the proceeds of the sale has been donated to the Dr Denis Mukwege Foundation (540 euro). February 4, 2020
SOLD: Faces of Rape X, Rachel Uwiduhaye, CGO, acryl on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, 2015. Half of the proceeds of the sale has been donated to the Mukhtar Mai Women’s Organisation (540 euro). February 1, 2020
25-26 January 2020 Faces of Rape, the Exhibition
FBVG presented Faces of Rape, the Exhibition. Everybody was welcome on 25 and 26 January 2020, in Bagagehal Loods 6, KNSM-laan 143, Amsterdam. Opening was on Saturday 25, 14:30, by Joyce Roodnat, cultural commentator and editor NRC. In October 2017 she described her #meToo experiences in this newspaper. Gregorian choir Schola Cantorum Karolus Magnus brought some songs from the cd The Martyred Virgins, their ode to female victims of (sexual) violence from 2012. Rina van Maanen recited some texts from the cd. In this weekend 3 paintings were sold.
This image was in use as invitation, flyer and poster.
Faces of Rape, the Exhibition in the Bagagehal Loods 6.
Faces of Rape XX
Faces of Rape XXIII
Faces of Rape XXIV
Faces of Rape XXXVII
Gregorian choir Schola Cantorum Karolus Magnus
The visitors reading the stories of the portrayed women in the catalogue
The start of the singing
Walking past Faces of Rape XXXIV
The choir singing
Talk by FBVG explaining the project Faces of Rape
Talk by FBVG
Official opening, talk by Joyce Roodnat
Talk by Joyce Roodnat
Talk by Joyce Roodnat
Rina van Maanen reciting the text The men who killed me. Rwandan survivors of sexual violence (Anne-Marie de Brouwer & Sandra Ka Hon Chu)
Rina van Manen reciting Forgive us our trespasses (Marthe Link)
Faces of Rape I-III
Faces of Rape IV-VII
Faces of Rape IV-VII
Faces of Rape VIII-XI
Faces of Rape VIII-XI
Faces of Rape XII-XVI
Faces of Rape XII-XV
Faces of Rape XVI-XIX
Faces of Rape XVI-XIX
Faces of Rape XX-XXIII
Faces of Rape XXIV-XXVII
Faces of Rape XXVIII-XXXI
Faces of Rape XXXIII-XXXVI
Faces of Rape XXXVII
FBVG and a visitor, on the background Faces of Rape XXXVIII, Sohaila Abdulali and her book What We Talk about When We Talk About Rape (Waar we over praten als we over verkrachting praten)
SOLD: Faces of Rape X, Rachel Uwiduhaye, CGO, acryl on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, 2015. Half of the proceeds from the sale has been donated to the Muhktar Mai Women’s Organisation (540 euro).
SOLD: Faces of Rape XVII, Pearl Mali, ZAF, acryl on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, 2017. Half of the proceeds from the sale has been donated to the Dr Denis Mukwege Foundation (540 euro).
SOLD: Faces of Rape XXIV, N., MMR, acryl on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2018.
6 December 2019 Symposium Centrum Seksueel Geweld
On 6 December 2019, during the symposium of Centrum Seksueel Geweld, the first copy of the catalogue of FBVG's Faces of Rape was handed out to founder of CSG Iva Bicanic, and the preface was read aloud.
FBVG reading the preface of the catalogue of the Faces of Rape exhibition in January 2020, which is her life-story
While showing all the Faces of Rape paintings
Faces of Rape XV was there
The invitation to the exhibition
Finally, Iva Bicanic got the first copy of the catalogue
The catalogue
25 November 2019 Orange The World
On 25 November 2019 during Orange The World at the UVA, a day to end (sexual) violence against women, there was a mini-exhibition of FBVG, 5 Faces of Rape were on display.
FBVG in front of the mini-exhibition
The orange lights are turned on
The UVA Orange The World Team
The view of the UVA building from the outside
Also the Eye Filmmuseum was set in orange