Juliet Romeo Chosen to Participate in Exhibition in Barcelona
In February 2021, I was asked to participate in Portrayals of Flesh exhibition at MUTUO Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. The exhibition was organized, curated, and publicized by the RICE Initiative, the publisher of RICE Magazine.
Juliet Romeo One of Ten Artists Chosen for Exhibition
After passing through three rounds of artist screenings, I was chosen as one of ten artists whose artwork would be displayed at the exhibition.
The exhibition was postponed at least three times because it was to occur during the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
When the exhibition would take place was uncertain. It was postponed from 2019 to 2020 and then again to 2021. I never got a solid answer about when and how to get my art to MUTUO Gallery in Barcelona. Then, I lost touch with the RICE Initiative organizers. Everything was touch and go because of COVID.
The Uncertainty
Participating in an art exhibition can be very expensive for artists when the gallery is not local to them. With the cost of producing and shipping my artwork overseas to Barcelona, Spain, and the uncertainty of when the art exhibit would actually take place, I decided to withdraw from the Portrayals of Flesh exhibition at MUTUO Gallery.
One of the photographs that I entered in the exhibit was chosen as the cover of RICE Art Magazine No. 2.
It seems that there was still an exhibition in 2021, although I can’t be sure because there are no pictures of the event.
What is RICE Initiative?
RICE Initiative is an independent curatorial platform striving for equality and inclusion of underrepresented artists in the art world, especially women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ Community. RICE launches open calls for artists, organizes art exhibits at art galleries across Europe, and publishes the RICE Art Magazine. The name RICE was originally an acronym for Reversing Initiative to Counter the Exclusion of women and other discriminated groups in the art world. As hard as it is to fathom, exclusion, discrimination, and corruption in the art world for reasons of gender, sexual identity, and race is a real thing, according to RICE Initiative.
