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Digital Violence against Women

When violence hides behind screens

Violence against women is often associated with visible injuries, silence, and shame. But today, violence also takes digital forms. It circulates through messages, images, surveillance, exposure, and repeated intrusion into everyday life. What appears immaterial can have lasting emotional, social, and physical consequences. Across Europe, digital violence against women is now increasingly recognized as a central dimension of gender based violence.
Between concealment and exposure

Hiding Behind Flowers confronts this shift

Flowers are a non verbal language. They can express affection, apology, gratitude, or grief without words. Because of their fragility, they also symbolize protection and peaceful resistance. In this project, flowers become a paradoxical image. They represent beauty, but also concealment. They speak softly, while covering what is difficult to say.
Research RED FLAGS funded during Pandemic by FONDS Darstellende Künste 2020
Call for Action

Upload your anonymous picture behind flowers

On visibility, anonymity, and digital violence

What can be done to make the invisible visible​

Through an anonymous digital platform, women are invited to share experiences of violence in a protected way. The project recognizes that the tension between violence, shame, power, and exposure often determines whether someone can speak at all. Anonymity is not used here to erase identity, but to create the conditions for expression.
The collected testimonies are transformed into an artistic language in which flowers become carriers of experience. What hides behind them is not decorative. It is social reality. Hiding Behind Flowers creates a space where invisible violence can be approached without forcing self exposure, and where private experiences can enter collective awareness with care and dignity.

Full access link here

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Call for Partnerships

We are seeking collaboration partners

Hiding Behind Flowers creates a protected framework in which women can share experiences anonymously through our Padlet. Their words are gathered without names and without exposure, so anonymity becomes a condition for trust and agency. These testimonies are translated into artistic form, turning flowers into carriers of stories and making hidden realities visible without forcing personal disclosure. To realise this work with depth and care, we are seeking strong partners and institutional allies who want to support protected participation, public visibility, and lasting social impact.
First Research during Pandemic 2020

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SDG GOALS 3, 5 & 10

Good Health & Well-being, Gender Equality & Reduced Inequalities

Through participatory creation, individuals express personal and collective identities, opening space for visibility, inclusion, and equal participation (SDG 5, 10). The creative process encourages emotional expression, reflection, and wellbeing (SDG 3). By working in public space and with local communities, our projects also contribute to more inclusive and socially connected cities (SDG 11) and strengthen collaboration across sectors and partners (SDG 17).
SDGs Sustainable Goals

OUR IMPACT

50 +
Digital Testominies
1
Global Topic
100 +
Ways to Cooperate
15
Participants
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Why Donate

Masterpiece for Good believes in the power of art to inspire, educate, and drive social change.

With your support, we can expand our programs, reach more communities, and create lasting impact.

Your Donations help us cover materials, workshops, artist fees, production costs, travel, documentation, and the basic infrastructure needed to realize our projects.

We aim for an allocation of donations based on a 20/80 ratio.
Ways to Donate
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Collective Art in Public Space

Educational process addressing structural violence against women

In October 2025, Masterpiece for Good began Pink Silence Avignon together with art students from Lycées St Joseph and Vincent de Paul in Avignon. As part of the ongoing Pink Silence series, the project focuses on violence against women and children through a process based on education, participation, and artistic work over time.
Across four social sculpture workshops, students worked with research, anonymous testimonies of domestic violence, and collective making. This process led to seven public installations and a series of visual materials, presented on 8 March 2026 for International Women’s Day in the schools and across the city.
Through 4 social sculpture workshops, students transformed research, anonymous testimonies of domestic violence, and collective creation into 7 public installations and a set of visual materials presented on 8th. of March (international women's day) 2026 in the schools and across the city.
Alphabet
ALPHABET
Alphabet
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Catcall
CATCALL
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Lips
LIPS
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LIPS
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Servitude
SERVITUDE
Servitude
SERVITUDE
ALPHABET
Root Questions & Anonymous Voices

Process and Method

Throughout the process, we regularly checked in with the group to understand how participants experienced the project and the anonymous format. This allowed for more honest reflection. Using a structured method, the students worked through social, emotional, and spatial aspects of the topic and developed seven social sculptures. The project was shaped by safe working conditions, critical thinking, and shared authorship.
Servitude
SERVITUDE
Catcall
CATCALL
Catcall
CATCALL
Flowers
Flowers
Clothes
Clothes
Pink Sound
PINK SOUND
Workshop Pink Silence
Workshop Pink Silence
Padlet to collect data

To Measure Impact

Over several months, 54 students took part in workshops that combined research, discussion, and artistic practice. To make it possible for many people to contribute, we used Padlet as a shared space to collect thoughts, experiences, and stories.
These contributions were part of the process from the beginning. They informed the themes, influenced the decisions made in the workshops, and were gradually translated into artistic forms. In this way, the project developed step by step through a collective process in which reflection and making were closely connected.
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Vernissage on Intern. Women's Day

A youth led public parcours

In cooperation with both schools and with the support of the City of Avignon, the installations will be handed over to the city as part of International Women’s Day. Nearly 80 young participants will be present across Avignon to host the parcours, care for the works, activate them on site, and guide visitors through the installations. The aim is to create an open, respectful dialogue in public space.

Interactive map to explore 7 installations in Avignon City

SDG Goals 3,5 & 16

Gender Equality Good Health & Well-being, Peace, justice and strong institution

Through an engaging participatory process, 50+ students co-created public installations addressing silence around taboo subjects such as violence (SDG 5, 16). By placing these works across the city and inviting the public to engage with them, the project transforms sensitive issues into spaces for observation and dialogue, supporting awareness and emotional reflection (SDG 3).
SDGs Sustainable Goals

OUR IMPACT

7
Installations
+ 80
Participants
4
Partnerships
350 +
Digital Dialogs
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Why Donate

Masterpiece for Good believes in the power of art to inspire, educate, and drive social change.

With your support, we can expand our programs, reach more communities, and create lasting impact.

Your Donations help us cover materials, workshops, artist fees, production costs, travel, documentation, and the basic infrastructure needed to realize our projects.

We aim for an allocation of donations based on a 20/80 ratio.
Ways to Donate
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Hanging the Laundry in the Square

A SOCIAL SCULPTURE UNFOLDING THROUGH FABRIC, BODIES, AND SPACE

Pink Silence Mazan takes shape within a very specific place and context. Developed in close dialogue with the residents and the municipality of Mazan, the project is part of a broader public conversation around domestic violence and responds to the urgent need to move this issue from the private sphere into collective awareness.
Modell Installation Mazan Square
Modell Installation Mazan Square
Domestic violence is too often confined to the home and treated as a private matter. The sheet, a symbol of intimacy, rest, and domestic life, becomes the central medium of the project. The French expression laver son linge sale en famille captures the social mechanism that keeps violence hidden in silence. Pink Silence Mazan turns that logic inside out. It is no longer about washing dirty laundry in private, but about washing it in solidarity, in a shared, visible, public space.

PINK SILENCE TURNS THIS LOGIC INSIDE OUT

Through four participatory workshops, local participants create 365 dyed and embroidered sheets, one for each day of the year. Those involved become the carriers of testimonies entrusted to us by women through our online platform. Gradually, these sheets become artworks in their own right, before coming together as a large scale social sculpture. In this way, Mazan is no longer reduced to the image of a place marked by violence, but emerges instead as a community choosing to make its solidarity visible in the face of a reality that extends far beyond its own borders.
Proposal | Pink Silence Movement Mazan
Our Vision

Autumn in Mazan

In collaboration with the local dance school Danse Mouvance, the project continues through movement. A site specific performance takes place across Mazan, bringing both bodies and fabric into public space. What was once kept behind the closed doors of the home now becomes visible at the heart of the village.
Sketch I
Sketch II
What Remained Inside

A SOCIAL SCULPTURE UNFOLDING THROUGH FABRIC, BODIES, AND PLACE

The 365 sheets come together as a large scale public installation that turns the village into a shared space of recognition, solidarity, and collective awareness. Pink Silence Mazan brings schools, cultural actors, residents, and local partners into a four phase process: local grounding, workshops, public installation, and long term engagement. In this way, the project stands as both a strong artistic statement and a civic gesture. It moves a pain long held in the private sphere into public presence, and restores public space as a place of shared visibility, responsibility, and care.
Pink Sheets
Pink Sheets
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Dying Process
Atelier to dry
Atelier to dry
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Dying in Pink
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Stiching
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Drying in the wind
Call for Action

PINK SILENCE NEEDS COMMITTED PARTNERS

Pink Silence is a concrete project. It will take shape on the ground, with the women who choose to take part, in public space. To make it possible, we need committed partners by our side now. We are looking for institutions, foundations, local authorities, and patrons who want to support a project capable of turning silence into a visible form of public dialogue. We are seeking partners who do not look away and who share the conviction that art can reveal a hidden reality and open a path toward collective awareness.
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    Financial partners who enable workshops, production, and public installation

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    Institutional partners who anchor the project locally

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    Cultural collaborators who expand visibility and reach

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    Foundations committed to gender equality and social transformation

Questions, ideas, or collaborations. Contact us. We look forward to connecting.

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SGD Goals 5, 3, 10, 11 & 17

Gender Equality, Good Health & Well-being & Sustainable Cities and Communities

By co creating installations with women and students, the project makes violence visible, supports emotional expression, and amplifies marginalized voices. It transforms public space into a platform for dialogue and builds local partnerships that connect art, education, and social change.
SDGs Sustainable Goals
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Why Donate

Masterpiece for Good believes in the power of art to inspire, educate, and drive social change.

With your support, we can expand our programs, reach more communities, and create lasting impact.

Your Donations Create Impact: donations help us cover materials, workshops, artist fees, production costs, travel, documentation, and the infrastructure needed to realize our projects.

We aim for an allocation of donations based on a 20/80 ratio.
Ways to Donate
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Gender Equality

What are the roots of domestic violence?

In 2015, Bogna Grazyna Jaroslawski launched Pink Silence in Auroville and Pondicherry, India, in collaboration with the Auroville Institute of Applied Technology (AIAT), Village Action, the Bamboo Center Auroville, the Ministry of Tourism of Pondicherry, the International Yoga Festival, and the Unity Pavilion Auroville.
Pondicherry Ocean View
Pondicherry Ocean View
Ghandi Statue
Ghandi Statue
Pondicherry Ocean View
Pondicherry Ocean View
International Yoga Festival
International Yoga Festival
Ghandi Statue
Ghandi Statue
Pondicherry Ocean View
Pondicherry Ocean View
Pondicherry Ocean View
Pondicherry Ocean View
Pondicherry Ocean View
Pondicherry Ocean View
How We Create Impact

Our Process

The project used collective making to address the taboo of violence against women and children. Students from AIAT and women from the Village Action groups co created a large-scale installation of 365 pink bamboo sticks, each carrying an anonymous message in Tamil or English. The process engaged around 200 people, many from rural Dalit communities, and the work later toured in India and Germany. Shown in public space, the installation became a source of visibility and pride, strengthening participants’ confidence and sense of agency.
Workshop @AIAT Auroville
Workshop @AIAT Auroville
Project Celebration AIAT Auroville
Project Celebration AIAT Auroville
Workshop @Village Action
Workshop @Village Action
Details of the 365 Pink Sticks
Details of the 365 Pink Sticks
Education

How it continues

The project was displayed in several rural areas and public spaces throughout Auroville and Pondicherry. Each time the installation was presented, the community gathered in smaller circles to share personal experiences related to the topic in a safe and supportive setting.
Happening at Village Action Irumbai / Auroville AIAT Campus
Inspiration

Meet the Gulabi Gang

Gulabi Gang | Nishta Jain
Inspired by real life in Uttar Pradesh in northern India and the Gulabi Gang, one of the region’s first feminist movements. Women dress in pink saris to claim visibility, stand in solidarity, and publicly protest domestic violence, seeking tangible social change.
SDG Goals 5, 3 & 16

Gender Equality, Good Health & Well-being, Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions

Through bamboo sticks carrying messages against violence, the installation makes gender-based violence visible in public space (SDG 5, 16). By inviting reflection and dialogue around a silenced issue, it supports awareness and emotional expression (SDG 3).
SDGs Sustainable Goals

OUR IMPACT

365
Pink Sticks
200 +
Local Participants
6
Exhibitions
9
Partnerships
Media Outreach

TEDx

The Transformative Powers of Social Sculpture
TEDx

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Why Donate

Masterpiece for Good believes in the power of art to inspire, educate, and drive social change.

With your support, we can expand our programs, reach more communities, and create lasting impact.

Your Donations Create Impact: donations help us cover materials, workshops, artist fees, production costs, travel, documentation, and the infrastructure needed to realize our projects.

We aim for an allocation of donations based on a 20/80 ratio.
Ways to Donate
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Sustainable Cities & Communities

Can we make a smile visible?

In 2017, Bogna Grazyna Jaroslawski, alongside Each One Teach One, Hip Hop Education South Africa, and Greatmore Studios Woodstock, embarked on the «Art & Culture make the world go round» project in Cape Town, South Africa. With support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, they focused on SDGs 11 of Agenda 2030.
Woodstock Community
Woodstock Community
HipHop Education Artists
HipHop Education Artists
Woodstock's local participant
Woodstock's local participant
Exhibition & Event
Exhibition & Event
Woodstock's local participants
Woodstock's local participants
HipHop Education Artists
HipHop Education Artists
How define value

Social Sculpture Process

A key outcome was «Smile» a project capturing laughter’s power on paper. Jaroslawski used food coloring, and the local «brothers and sisters from the streets» blew colored water onto bread paper bags, creating vibrant patterns. Post-creation, the artworks were enriched with graphics inspired by Khayelitsha, one of South Africa’s largest townships, and adorned with pieces of 23-carat ducat gold leaf, thus elevating the creations to the status of art.
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
Smile - Gold, Food Color, Rollerball, Paper Bag
The Process

The Streets of Woodstock

The project culminated in an exhibition at Greatmore Studios art gallery, where the «brothers and sisters» were invited, challenging societal power hierarchies and providing recognition to these artists, introducing their work to a wider audience. Usually homeless people lack access to the galleries…
Streets of Woodstock, Capetown
Streets of Woodstock, Capetown
Foodcolor on Paperbags
Foodcolor on Paperbags
Brothers & Sisters from the Streets
Brothers & Sisters from the Streets
Local Participant from Woodstock
Local Participant from Woodstock
SGD GOAL 11

Sustainable Cities & Communities

Art and Culture Make the World Go Round advances SDG 11 by implementing cultural participation as a core element of sustainable urban development. Through a participatory artistic process, people experiencing homelessness were positioned as active contributors within Cape Town’s cultural landscape. Access to gallery space as part of the city’s cultural infrastructure was opened, social hierarchies were critically addressed, and artistic recognition was made possible. The project strengthens social cohesion, inclusion, and the right to participate in urban life.
Woodstock
Capetown

OUR IMPACT

60
Art Pieces
30 +
Participants
3
Events
10
International Partnerships

PRESS

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Why Donate

Masterpiece for Good believes in the power of art to inspire, educate, and drive social change.

With your support, we can expand our programs, reach more communities, and create lasting impact.

Your Donations help us cover materials, workshops, artist fees, production costs, travel, documentation, and the basic infrastructure needed to realize our projects.

We aim for an allocation of donations based on a 20/80 ratio.
Ways to Donate
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Sustainability in Refugee-Camps

Restore Cultural Heritage of Community Space

In 2004, Aurélie Maestre, in partnership with Spanish and Palestinian NGOs, embarked on the «En el desierto sin tierra una respuesta solidaria» («In the landless desert a response of solidarity»), a project at Sahrawi camps in Algeria’s southwest Sahara. In place, the community leader requested A. Maestre to restore their community space portraying their cultural heritage artistically.
Common Space with Social Sculpture
Empowerment through Social Action

The Transformative Powers of Social Sculpture

To transform that room, one of the few solid structures of the camps, she decided to incorporate paintings of traditional Sahrawi textile motifs. Assisted by a team of 15 volunteers, set about bringing this vision to life, working with local materials such as whitewash and pigments available in the area.

The transformative impact of this art project spread throughout the Saharawi camps, boosted their cultural identity, and ended with a grand potluck dinner, symbolizing their unity and shared heritage.
Only Brick Building in the Camp
Only Brick Building in the Camp
Usual Accomondation
Usual Accomondation
Meeting of the Community
Meeting of the Community
Participant from the Camp
Participant from the Camp
Meeting of the Community
Meeting of the Community
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Developed Design for the Project
Saharawi Children Intervention
Saharawi Children Intervention
Learning to survive in the Dessert
Learning to survive in the Dessert
Saharawi Camp
Saharawi Camp
SDG Goal 11

Sustainable Cities & Communities

Through the co-creation of painted public spaces using traditional motifs, the project improves shared environments and reinforces sustainable community identity (SDG 11).
SDGs Sustainable Goals

OUR IMPACT

1
Common Space
1000 +
Memories Restored
12
Colors
15
Participants
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Why Donate

Masterpiece for Good believes in the power of art to inspire, educate, and drive social change.

With your support, we can expand our programs, reach more communities, and create lasting impact.

Your Donations Create Impact: donations help us cover materials, workshops, artist fees, production costs, travel, documentation, and the infrastructure needed to realize our projects.

We aim for an allocation of donations based on a 20/80 ratio.
Ways to Donate
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Seeing Together

Ten years of everyday beauty, resilience, and collective gaze

During 5 months each year between 2010 and 2021, Aurélie Maestre ran the annual project «Les 28 yeux». She sought to bring out the creative vision in everyday people, this time focusing on an open group of acquaintances from all Europe, not necessarily connected with the art world.

In line with her approach, Maestre launched a photo contest where participants were invited to send a picture each month on a specific theme. Regardless of whether they used a professional camera or a cell-phone, what mattered was their perseverance.

Over 40 individuals partook in this artistic journey over the ten-year span, developing a keen eye for the beauty in their daily lives. During the Covid lockdown, the rhythm intensified to a photo per day, providing a comforting routine that helped the participants feel less isolated.

In 2021, the best pictures from the decade-long project were exhibited in Marseille and Apt (France), providing a tangible record of the resilience and creativity that had been nurtured through this enduring initiative.
February 21
February 21
March 2021
March 2021
April 2021
April 2021
May 2021
May 2021
June 2021
June 2021
SDG Goal 3

Good Health & Well-being

Through participatory photography, individuals capture and share their daily perspectives, creating connection and reflection (SDG3).
SDGs Sustainable Goals

OUR IMPACT

+ 10 y
Project Durration
40
Online Participants
2000 +
Pictures
2
Exhibition
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Why Donate

Masterpiece for Good believes in the power of art to inspire, educate, and drive social change.

With your support, we can expand our programs, reach more communities, and create lasting impact.

Your Donations help us cover materials, workshops, artist fees, production costs, travel, documentation, and the basic infrastructure needed to realize our projects.

We aim for an allocation of donations based on a 20/80 ratio.
Ways to Donate
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