Spanish art show spotlights ‘hidden’ digital divide in pandemic

A painting by Ares highlighting the digital gender gap on display at Barcelona’s Analog Museum of Digital Inequality. The digital gender gap remains a persistent issue, one that needs radical cultural, structural and systemic change, said Longo. — Thomson Reuters Foundation

BARCELONA: A painting of a woman using an iPad, a vase depicting children dreaming of computers – both historical objects with a contemporary twist highlighting the world’s growing digital divide during the coronavirus pandemic.

The exhibition at Barcelona’s Analog Museum of Digital Inequality aims to show how this gap – laid bare by Covid-19 – disproportionately affects women and low-income and ethnic minority groups.