La Casona de Femés opened its doors this Tuesday, October 31, to resume its program of plastic and visual arts with a collective exhibition project, curated by Guacimara Hernández, under the title of 'Duelos', which includes the participation of artists such as Mariola Acosta, Jacinto Alonso, Elena Betancor, Alejandro Correa, Lana Corujo, Daniel Fleitas, Flora González, Emma López Leyton, Imara Rêvasser, Fernando Robayna or Daniel Aparicio, among others.
This new project of the Cabildo de Lanzarote and La Graciosa is organized through the Culture area, in collaboration with the Department of Culture of the Yaiza City Council, whose councilor, Daniel Medina, was also present at the inauguration. This exhibition also has the collaboration of the Artizar Gallery.
The Minister of Culture, Jesús Machín Tavío, has stated that "this is an interesting exhibition that includes the participation of local artists whose works combine contemporary art and that arises from the cooperation between both institutions within the framework of the spirit of collaboration and support of the Cabildo in cultural matters."
Grief as artistic expression
'Duelos' is configured through the plastic, visual and installation work of a careful selection of local artists whose works are wrapped in a dark and disturbing atmosphere, which tells us about shadows, mists, silences, memories and echoes in which feelings such as forgetfulness, helplessness, desolation, emptiness, absence, fear, uncertainty or the emotional distress of someone or something that has died or is no longer among us are transited.
Many of the manifestations and artistic actions of this project are linked to the anthropology of death, but also to emotions such as absence and dejection that the human being feels when experiencing a loss, not only with death itself, but also when the loss is extrapolated to other vital fields of the individual, in the form of non-spaces and whose habitability we try to ensure through small rites or substitute ceremonies of private and domestic scale, which often become deritualized actions.
In the words of Guacimara Hernández, curator of the exhibition, "'Duelos' is the reflection on death, from one's own death, from the death of the other and from the other tangible scene that represents a landscape, a figure or an object that is no longer there. It is the affective bond that unites us to the memory or remembrance of what is lost and that is present in the process of mourning. It is here where we find, through the different artistic expressions, the production of a rupture or a confrontation with absence and desolation, in order to mythify what is rescued from memory."
Staging of the performance 'Mortaja'
Within the programmed activities of the exhibition 'Duelos', the multidisciplinary artist Daniel Aparicio will stage 'Mortaja', a performative action created and directed by him, during the days November 3 and 4, at 6:00 p.m. at the Casona de Femés. Admission is free, until the capacity of the rooms is full.
It is a show focused on death and in which voices of tradition and languages of the contemporary scene converge in the form of different scenes that seek to envelop us in our own shroud. Carmen Ramón, Miriam Hernández, Lucia, Padrón, Mara Hernández, Otilia Real and Carmelina García from the CAES of Teguise will participate in the performance. The dramaturgy will be in charge of Daniel Aparicio and Salvador Escobar and Norberto de León will be in charge of the regiduría.
Visits and dialogues with the exhibitions
In a complementary way, a program of guided tours to the aforementioned exhibitions by Estefanía Camejo, art historian, is also planned. These visits or dialogues with the exhibitions will take place on the following days:
Programming
- Saturday, November 18, at 12:00 noon
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Tuesday, November 28, at 6:00 p.m.
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Saturday, January 20, at 12:00 noon
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Tuesday, January 30, at 6:00 p.m.
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Saturday, March 02, at 12:00 noon
'Duelos' can be enjoyed from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Monday to Saturday) and from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday). Sundays and holidays will remain closed and admission is free. The exhibition can be enjoyed until March 2, 2024.
