He Autonomous Organization of Museums and Centers (OAMC) has inaugurated the EurÁfriCaribe 2023 exhibition at the Lercaro House of the Museum of History and Anthropology (MHAT)in Tenerife.
As reported by the Cabildo, it is a collective art exhibition organized by Center Euro Africa will be open to the public until March 26 in order to represent the ties that have been created between Africa, Europe and Central America due to migration human.
Noemí Terrero, Jordi Santacana, Laura Balde, Jean François Granjon and Dahiana Blanco will be the artists who will bring this exhibition to life by contributing their collections. After its stop in Tenerife, it will continue its route through the Iberian Peninsula, France, Morocco, the Ivory Coast and will end in the Dominican Republic in 2024.
In this regard, the Island Councilor for Museums, Concepción Rivero; the ambassador of the Dominican Republic, Juan Bolívar Díaz; the president of the Euro Africa Center, Divaika Kiemba; and the curator of the exhibition, Santa Morel, inaugurated this exhibition and detailed its characteristics.
Rivero assured that “the exhibition is a great opportunity for museum visitors to learn the ins and outs of interculturality” and encouraged the public to attend, remembering that it is a free admission event.
On the other hand, the counselor valued “the diversity of the sample, since it has works from different artistic disciplines such as photography, painting or sculpture” and stressed that “all of them revolve around the same theme, the tricontinental identity that makes African contributions visible in other societies”.
III EDITION OF PEOPLE OF AFRO DESCENDANT IN EUROPE
The exhibition is part of the program of the III Edition of Afro-descendants in Europe, an international artistic event that this year pays tribute to the Dominican Republic, emphasizing Afro-descendant identity.
In this sense, the ambassador of this country, Juan Bolívar Díaz, assured that “today’s society has multiple voices in the same globalized world and that initiatives like these are what make them heard.”
Also, he wanted to remember that “Dominicans have 49% African descent and 39% European, which links them directly to both continents.”
For his part, the president of the Euro Africa Center, Divaika Kiemba, stressed that “the objective of his entity is to build bridges between Africa, Europe and Central America”, so Tenerife is a strategic point in which to disseminate this exhibition for being located between these three continents.
Finally, the curator of the exhibition, Santa Morel, pointed out that “this exhibition is the fruit of almost two years of research and research, but also of dreams, because the emotional part is very important and from the beginning we knew that we could manage to unite these three continents that have so much in common.
