“Adolescents and girls who are pregnant and attending schools suffer stigma and discrimination because they are considered to
be ‘a problem’.
Recently, a controversy broke out on social media around the work of Jorge Pineda, a prominent Dominican artist who died in
February of this year. The work elaborated in 2014 was exhibited at this year's Biennial and presents a mannequin of a pregnant
girl in the uniform of public schools with the intention of making visible the normalization of a reality that affects children
and adolescents in our country.
The existence of a scandal in the networks around the work shows a part of society that seeks to hide a reality that is present
in educational centers that is not prevented, but is not integrated and that its visibility is understood as promotion. Many
people reacted in a distorted way to the objective of the work understanding that these mannequins existed in stores and that
this sought to promote pregnancy in adolescence and childhood.”
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