SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 9. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Autonomous Organization of Museums and Centers (OAMC), dependent on the Cabido de Tenerife, inaugurates this Friday the sculpture exhibition by the artist Yapci Ramos entitled ‘Monumenta. Nine Guanche incarnations’, at the Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA).
In it nine Guanche identities are presented, configured from a historical and contemporary point of view, to claim the little presence of women and subaltern subjects in the monuments of public space.
The Island Councilor for Museums, Concepción Rivero, highlighted the informative work on the lives of aboriginal women in this exhibition and the research work carried out by the artist.
“It is necessary to make visible the figure of Guanche women, who were a fundamental part of Canarian society and whose work we must rescue,” she stressed in a note sent by the corporation.
The artist Yapci Ramos explained that in this explosion she gives “visibility” to the Guanche woman from a contemporary perspective.
“I think it is necessary to rethink everything that has been inherited from us and propose solutions that give representation to women and other diverse identities, escaping from the patriarchal premises with which public space is configured,” he stressed.
To this she added that “the Guanche woman occupied a place as an active subject in the ancient pre-Hispanic communities of Tenerife” and for this reason in ‘Monumenta’ she pays homage to them “through a cartography of nine incarnations, defined from each one of the territories they represent, their ancestral culture and oral tradition”.
After years of research, the artist exhibits her work to formulate new collective imaginaries.
This exhibition thus becomes an open platform for dialogue in which “everyone” questions “the forms of representation in the public space of the past”.
The exhibition uses 3-D technology, sounds and songs made by the artist and archive material, through an installation of life-size sculptures, so that viewers can appreciate the Guanche incarnations from their materiality.
In this way, it proposes its formalization in the public space through an exhibition where historical documentation and replicas of Guanche objects are combined with the creative imagination of the artist and the represented territories.
The artistic project has the support and collaboration of the Canarian Institute for Cultural Development of the Government of the Canary Islands, the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain and the Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA).
