Cachetejack
Dorothy Jean Vaughan, 2025
Plastic paint on wall
Inventory No.: UV001271
Margaret Hamilton, 2025
Plastic paint on wall
Inventory No.: UV001272
Connecting people, 2024
Plastic paint on wall, 140 x 350 cm
Inventory No. UV001261
This work is part of the project Universitat de València's values: Art and heritage over the campus
The place of painting and Cachete Jack
The set of murals painted by Nuria Bellver and Raquel Fanjul (Cachete Jack) at the ETSE, the Higher Technical School of Engineering on the Burjassot Campus, illustrate the values of the University of Valencia: their images captivate, but they are not gratuitous; they raise questions about who is represented there. The emotion arises when you discover them from the cafeteria or when walking through the corridors of the School. Cachete Jack fulfils the primary function of muralism, to beautify the context, with her personal style of large, well-defined patches of colour and an apt palette of warm, saturated tones. The three murals are works that bring light to the environment, constructed between gardens and passageways, adapting their formats to the architecture. They have been resolved as integral, formally emphatic pieces. The artists manage to connect women who changed the history of science: mathematician Dorothy Vaughan and fellow mathematician and software engineer Margaret Hamilton with the students of the University of Valencia, through design and painting.
Cachete Jack's paradoxes do not detract from the conceptual depth of his illustrations. They know how to create visual journeys that run between the knowing glances of the students, in the case of the Connecting People mural. The success of the (rigorous) composition of the tribute to African-American scientist Dorothy Vaughan: with singular grace, they make direct reference to programming language and the scientist's involvement in NASA's satellite launches. Finally, the surreal scene of walking on the moon in shoes, thanks to the Apollo project with Margaret Hamilton, would have been impossible to imagine.
Cachete Jack's murals bring together science and technology with the visual arts: these disciplines can be universal, aesthetic and ethical references, from feminism to contemporary public art.
Juan Canales. Polytechnic University of Valencia
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