The conference’s aim is to make Bonet’s last work known, Roedores. Cuerpo de embarazada sin embrión (Literatura Random House, 2018). It is a diptych made up of the diaries of her two abortions and a painted bestiary trying to break pregnancy loss taboos. The book, which has been considerably successful among people and the critics, stands up for women and the feminist debate.

In October 2018, Paula Bonet (Vila-real, 1980) was given the Highest Distinction of the Valencian Government and awarded with the Medal for Cultural Merit. She is currently working on the paintings for El año del pensamiento mágico (Literatura Random House, 2019) by Joan Didion, and an exhibition of paintings and engravings to be held in València soon. Bonet, graduated in Fine Arts by the Universitat Politècnica de València, has collaborated many times with other artists. In March, she published Por el olvido together with artist Aitor Saraiba, a hymn to literature and friendship, Roberto Bolaño, and his novel Los detectives salvajes. 

Bonet is known for her studies in Santiago de Chile, New York and Urbino, which allowed her to focus on oil painting, engraving and illustration, through which she expresses her most aware facet. She has presented exhibition in places such as Barcelona, Madrid, Porto, Paris, London, Mexico and Miami, among others. Some of her outstanding works are Qué hacer cuando en la pantalla aparece The End (Lunwerg, 2014), 813 (La Galera, 2015), Escribe con Rosa Montero (Alfaguara, 2017) and Quema la memoria (Lunwerg, 2017). La sed (Lunwerg, 2017) is also important to note – the artist breaks through the previous aesthetics in this cruel book on sentimental and emotional disorientation.

The conference by Paula Bonet is organised by the Office of the Vice-Principal for Equality, Diversity and Sustainability along with the Gender Equality Unite, and with the collaboration of the Valencian Department of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation.

The Lluís Vives European School of Knowledge is a cultural project set up as a space for reflection and critical and engaged discussion on current affairs. It is promoted by the Office of the Vice-Principal of Culture and Sport under the management of the General Foundation of the Universitat de València. The School also counts on the support of other actors from the public administration and the civil society such as the Valencian Government Presidency, the València City Council, the Valencian Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sport, the Valencian Department of Transparency, the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llegua, the Alfons el Magnànim Institute, the European School of Humanities and Caixa Popular Bank.