Fadrines is an exhibition about women who did not marry when it was the right thing to do. Or what is the same, women who undermined the heteropatriarchal norm of getting married and having children. How were their lives considering the social environment that looked at them sideways, that stereotyped and ignored them? How were they built from that margin that was the fadrinesa, from that periphery that attracts little attention...? Far from scornful or pitiful readings, Fadrines shows the diversity of life trajectories of single women (fadrinesa) in the face of the hegemonic model. Intuitive feminists of the 40s and 50s, who make an identity journey from stereotype to fulfillment.
At the same time, Fadrines. Que la vida només és casar-se? is a webdoc or interactive documentary that will be available at the exhibition, non-linear and free access, full of films, animated photographs, illustrations and voices of single women (fadrines), which allows to discover -in first person- all kinds of stories and experiences silenced by these protagonists.
Both the exhibition and the webdoc, Fadrines, is a museographic exercise born from fieldwork and research on the female singleness in L'ETNO. An exciting and careful study that has also concluded its research work with the publication number 8 of the Temas de Etnografía Valenciana Collection; accessible and downloadable through the following link: https://letno.dival.es/es/publicacion/fadrines-el-proces-de-no-casar-se….
