Vision and presence 2023: performance cycle

The second edition of the cycle of performances Vision and Presence begins in which the Afro-Spanish artist Agnes Essonti, undertakes an exercise of collective memory in various galleries of the collection, focusing on slavery, identity, race and the sense of belonging.

Basing herself on traditions from her native Cuba, in Being reborn Alejandra Glez combines influences from the Yoruba religion (originally from Africa) with those of the Cuban Taínos in the Antilles to create an action which refers to the oceans, the sea and water as creator of life

In a collaborative action with her daughter Kira, the Mexican artist Lorena Wolffer compiles the experiences and opinions of young feminists regarding their desires and sexuality and their viewpoint on the world and way of approaching the present in the light of patriarchal challenges.

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Based on general experience and on her own story, Osiris Ferrera visibilises and denounces violence against women in Honduras.

The Spanish artist KarmeLaHoz establishes a relationship between the collection and quotations from leading authors of all periods and from a wide range of geographical origins and contexts that reveal the gender roles assigned to women over history.

In Fluidity the Honduran artist Scarlett Rovelaz reflects on the present-day disconnection with the environment and on the drying up of Spain’s rivers.

Amapola Prada (born Lima, 1978) presents an action based on the relationships between the body, psychology and history.

In this performance, the artists of Art al Quadrat take some of the pejorative terms found in trial reports from the Civil War to describe accused women.

Artist Ana Beltrá focuses on how the press reports on violence against women and how it minimises the impact of statistics.

The Chilean artist looks at the colonial history inherent to western museums in relation to indigenous bodies, the Spanish Crown’s colonial past and the invasion of South America.