Period
2002-2009
Proposed by
Sandra Terdjman
Location
Mexico City
About the project
The Meteoro Project was a trade school specifically designed for the youth and children living on the street in conditions of extreme poverty. Art and Design became the main axes in finding an alternative for them. The project worked simultaneously on health care and mental health, creating a job market in the process.
The project worked successfully with tangible results and significantly impacted the community of young people in the streets, the art media, and society in general. As those young people migrated to the city in search of a better life, they encountered a difficult reality: driven to live on the streets, uneducated, and without basic needs, they became victims of drug addiction, prostitution, crime, premature pregnancy, and violence. Through the work of the Meteoro Project, these young adolescents were no longer seen as a criminal problem but as creative and productive entities in both mind and soul.
Over the course of 7 years, the project formed an educational model that effectively influenced this problem. They found that through art, even the most difficult realities could be changed, creating new strategies of social transformation and contributing to the healthy development of global communities.
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About the artist
Claudia Fernández's work is developed in a wide array of forms, ranging from painting, to installation, video and photography, as well as community and educational projects. Her work has been shown in different exhibitions, in Mexico as well as at international level, in spaces such as Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Museo de Arte de Zapopan (Guadalajara, Mexico), MNCARS (Madrid), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Casa Barragán (Mexico City), ICA (Boston), Hammer Museum (Los Ángeles), Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich) and the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), among others.
