The International Museum of Contemporary Art of the Castle of San José hosts this Thursday "El Traspatio", an interdisciplinary exhibition of the work of five young artists from Lanzarote.
The writer and illustrator Lana Corujo, the painter and textile artist Mariela García, the interdisciplinary artist Darío Machín, the sculptor Cintia Machín and the painter Marina Speer have been the artists chosen with stories that connect and coexist in an exhibition hall to form "a shared stay as a unified mental and conceptual map".
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, wanted to publicly congratulate the five artists for conceiving "from their talent and creativity an extraordinary project, which invites us to stop, to pause, to think and to reflect on our lives".
For his part, the Minister of Culture of the First Island Institution, Alberto Aguiar, expressed his gratitude to the artists for "an exhibition that values the gender perspective in such a resounding way".
In addition, Aguiar recalled "the obligation of institutions to facilitate the access of citizens to creation, even more so from an early age, to clear the difficulties they encounter, and thus prevent all that talent from being dispersed along the way".
The councilor predicted "a great future" for the five artists starring in the exhibition, and advanced that "El Traspatio is the first proposal of an initiative that will have continuity in the MIAC to give visibility to the many young talents that exist on the island".
El Traspatio and The Diverse Museum
In this line, María José Alcántara, director of the MIAC, stressed that "El Traspatio marks the beginning of an annual program, 'The Diverse Museum', which is committed to young creation and the multiplicity of proposals that occur in contemporary art, thus favoring the professionalization and access to institutions of young artists on the island".
El Traspatio is curated by the anthropologist, artist and researcher Marianna Amorim, who explained that "the exhibition is the result of a formative process with these five sensitive and intelligent young people that has lasted four months".
Grateful, Amorim indicated that the exhibition "tries to build a thought around the links that occur in the home and unfolds before the viewer as a conceptual dwelling where the notion of shared delimitation between the house and the island is intermingled with memory and everyday life to transform the MIAC into a backyard, into a refuge, into a meeting and rescue point".
After the press conference, the young artists gave a guided tour explaining the motivations and secrets hidden in their works.
It should be noted that El Traspatio, together with other exhibitions by local artists selected in the Call for artistic, cultural and educational proposals of the Tourist Centers, is framed in the MIAC Circuits project which aims to open a debate on the routes of art on the island and generate a dialogue with the different actors involved in the changes that occur in contemporary societies.