Quásares
Seville
Location: Seville
Period: 2024 - News
Period: 2024 - News
"Crear una obra que encarne el mapa de emociones que atraviesan las personas en tratamiento contra el cáncer".
For my quasars...'I'm sending you a short reflection on the quasars…cuerpo celeste que tiene una apariencia estelar y que, en el telescopio, aparece como una débil estrellita. Sin embargo, observados con el radiotelescopio, muestran una emisión energética como para ser comparada con la de una galaxia íntegra. Los quasares son los objetos más luminosos conocidos en el Universo y su energía sería equivalente a la de un billón de soles. Eres un quásar en la tierra y al igual que él, emites esa intensa luz de una forma desinteresada y altruista.
This letter, written on 17 November 2015 by a patient, was dedicated to the radiotherapy technicians at the Infanta Luisa Hospital in Seville. It is just one of many letters of thanks that healthcare staff, from cleaners to oncologists, have received over the years in that unit and in the oncology day unit of the Sacred Heart Hospital. Patients often refer to them as "heavenly bodies", "angels" or "beings of light".
Cancer patients navigate a sea of emotions that includes fear, anxiety, anger and uncertainty, but also tenderness, humour, care and hope. The title of this project pays tribute to this letter and to the emotional bonds that are forged in such crucial moments for the emotional management of cancer patients.
Protagonists
Artists
Andrea Moran adela por dios (Adela Angulo)
Principals
Representatives from the oncology, nursing, radiology and other areas of the Sagrado Corazón and Infanta Luisa hospitals. Volunteers and workers of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC). Oncology patients at the Sagrado Corazón and Infanta Luisa Hospitals
Mediadoras/es
Journal
Illustrator adela por dios and journalist Andrea Morán join Quásares
The Quasares group of principals selects the people in charge of carrying out their commission.
How a letter transformed a cultural mediation process
This is what the Quasars mediation process has been like so far.
The Quasars Collection, a browsable showcase of cultural objects related to cancer, is now available.
Quásares is a participatory art project that seeks to improve the emotional care of cancer patients through cultural mediation and art, and is coordinated by Felipe G. Gil, from ZEMOS98. Among the results of this process is this catalogue, designed with the aim of connecting the emotions of cancer patients with different artistic expressions.
