El Museo Canario will host a special evening as part of its program ‘A Night at the Museum’ featuring Canary Islands artist Yapci Ramos. The event will take place on Tuesday, 28th May, at 7.00 pm. The artist will discuss contemporary creation based on the aboriginal theme that inspires her exhibition project ‘Monumenta. Nine Guanche reincarnations’.
In her proposal, Yapci Ramos sheds light on the forgotten aboriginal women of Tenerife and questions the forms of representation of the precolonial past from a contemporary perspective.
Monuments analysis
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After analysing numerous monuments, she undertakes a historical analysis to unravel the unknown past of subaltern identities due to their underrepresentation. According to the author’s approach, aboriginal women were active subjects in pre-Hispanic communities, but since the Spanish conquest, aboriginal societies came to be regulated by patriarchal premises that perpetuated certain narratives while invisibilizing others, leading to the forgetting of alterity.
Following this idea, and through artistic, historical, and social research, Ramos develops nine identities inspired by the landscapes of each of the pre-Hispanic demarcations of Tenerife island, its ancestral culture, and oral tradition.
The event at El Museo Canario will feature the documentary ‘Monumenta’, funded by the Government of Canarias, accompanied by a sculptural exhibition by the same artist, followed by a roundtable discussion where she will be joined by archaeologist Teresa Delgado Darias.
“Decolonising memory”
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Yapci Ramos’ approach aims to “decolonise memory through research to find the path to the origin, delving into an interpretation of representations that come to life with ancestral elements. The creative process and production themselves entail a connection with the earth and time. The narrative style, slow and nebulous, merges with the voices of the forest and with the lament of the conch shell lost in the sea.”
The female protagonists “emerge from the almagre through the printers”, allowing the artist to bring them back to life centuries later to recreate them “in an existential justice, returning the history that should have been.”
Yapci Ramos lives and works between Barcelona, New York, and Tenerife. She explores identity, sexuality, and territory through the creation of multimedia installations.
Her work is emotional, physical, and introspective, often using her own body to channel taboos, rituals, and catharsis that shape the experience of being. Ramos’ projects challenge the boundary of comfort between the body and society, addressing the intricate workings of both internal psychology and external expressions of identity.
Attendance at Ramos’ presentation at El Museo Canario will be free upon registration.
