Quearteencasa group’s description assures would-be members that “you don’t have to be a great art expert to participate.” You can choose the format to recreate—a painting, a poster, or a stamp. The group encourages participants to “be creative, funny, ironic, humorous” and, most importantly, “surprise them.”
It’s not the first time that Spain, the second worst coronavirus-hit country, has demonstrated its taste for art during the lockdown. Three Barcelona-based creators, Emma Calvo, Irene Llorca, and José Guerrero, have launched the “Covid Art Museum” on Instagram, which commissions artists to reflect their lives in quarantine. The pandemic will end eventually, but art will remain forever.
Bored Panda contacted Elmira Kamalova, the administrator of the Quearteencasa Facebook group, to find out more about the community.
She said that similar groups exist all over the world and the idea itself isn’t original. But Quearteencasa is aimed at people from Spanish-speaking countries who could use the platform to engage in local art, things, and popular stuff. “Our members come from Spain, Mexico and Argentina. And some people, they come from Italy!”
“People can talk about things in their own language, support each other, and get united online,” Elmira explained. Her end goal is to turn this challenge into an international project and make it a legit artistic game for everyone to enjoy! “I would like it to become its own kind of Artistic Game, like the Olympic Games or Eurovision, where each country has its own group of people competing with each other,” said Elmira.
