In all the gatherings of friends the subject comes up: Have you seen Barbie? The answer is always the same: No, but they say that she is good. It goes without saying that it should not be a cult work of the seventh art, but word has spread that it is a movie with a message, and that you don't have to be a fan of dolls or the color pink bubblegum. Some even leave the door open to go see it.
I myself didn't have a Barbie, we were from Nancy in my time, but I thought come on, we'll have to go, that's why everyone talks about her and that way you'll know what all the fuss is about. Holidays are the best time for inconsequential leisure. I mess up a few friends and we go to the movies.
It's nice to see the room full of a diverse audience in the session dubbed into Catalan. I was expecting a lot of young girls dressed in pink, and yes there were quite a few, but also groups of friends, couples of all ages and quite a few men. Everyone to see a supposed feminist movie with the claim of the doll.
And the disappointment comes when, after a burst of colors, flashy sets and detailed choreography, the alleged message of equality and empowerment is lost in the omnipresent objective of advertising Barbie without sparing any expense.
Despite the presence of ethnic diversity and professions -Barbies come out that even win Nobel prizes, there is a pregnant doll, although I did not see a trace of the Barbie with Down syndrome-, the true protagonist is the stereotypical Barbie, who passes by an existential crisis, oops yes, that leads nowhere.
But in meetings with friends the question does not appear: Have you gone to see Tros de donut? Without all the marketing display of Barbie, at the Museu de la Vida Rural de l'Espluga de Francolí you can visit the Tros de dona exhibition until February 4, 2024. We can consider it as the ideal typical activity for that day Cloudy from the holidays. If we were in the Empordà, we would go to queue at the Dalí Museum. Well, if we find ourselves a few counties further down, it is worth taking a detour and approaching the Conca de Barberà.
In Tros de dona the protagonists are real women with their feet on the ground, not plastic dolls with a bath of trashy feminism. Divided into four spaces (house, street, body and land), the exhibition curated by Anna Maria Andevert presents a journey through the care tasks that women have traditionally dedicated themselves to and how laws have evolved from the 19th century to the present. .
With first and last names appear Rosa Olivé, a midwife who helped more than a thousand babies be born, and Elena Maseras, the first woman to enroll in Medicine at the University of Barcelona in 1872. There is also space for the conceited woman in the photo of Joana Biarnés "In the absence of money, painted stripes instead of the seams of the stockings." Let the word spread that Tros de donut is very worthwhile.
