The exhibition embarks on a visual journey that highlights how the representation of the female body throughout history not only reflects but also fuels inequalities and injustices, embedding itself in the collective imagination to the point of leaving scars that still influence the way we perceive and treat women’s bodies today. — This is a story of girls who fly, old women who cast spells, and little girls who enchant toads. But it is not a fairy tale. It is a dark page of history, of the Basque Country and beyond. One of many pages in which women’s bodies were trampled on, exploited, and abused, becoming the target of a persecution fueled by ignorance and superstition — a scapegoat for a wave of collective hysteria that, in Europe alone, between the late Middle Ages and the early modern era, caused more than fifty thousand victims.
