The National Museum of Romanticism hosts the exhibition Silenced Pain, by artist Laia Abril, a free exhibition that addresses how endometriosis has been ignored by medicine for centuries. The disease affects millions of women with chronic pain, and the proposal seeks to break the historical silence surrounding this female health issue, offering a space for reflection and public recognition.
The technical failure of historical medicine with the female body 🩺
From a technological perspective, the exhibition points out how medical research has prioritized male biological systems, leaving out processes such as menstruation or chronic pelvic pain. The absence of precise diagnostic tools and specific treatments for endometriosis reflects a persistent development bias. The artist documents how clinical protocols, by ignoring these symptoms, have created a data vacuum that perpetuates the lack of effective solutions.
When the uterus becomes an unsolved mystery 🔍
If medicine had dedicated half the resources to endometriosis that it has to studying male baldness, today we would know more about the uterus than about the surface of Mars. But no, here we are, with women who have spent years hearing that it's all in their head while real pain roams through their bodies without a map or instruction manual. Good thing art, at least, doesn't need a prescription to point out the obvious.