The Elder Museum hosts the Art, Culture and Rural Life Exhibition from March 20th to 30th

 

The Elder Museum of Science and Technology hosted the opening of the Art, Culture, and Rural Life Exhibition this afternoon, an initiative of the Gran Canaria Island Association for Rural Development (AIDER). The exhibition tells the story of a journey through rural life, featuring the work of 30 professionals in photography, painting, and illustration, as well as the results of workshops held with young people.

 

 

The exhibition connects landscape, memory and identity, and conveys, through creative and experimental processes, the values ​​held by the rural environment of Gran Canaria, in order to improve awareness, knowledge and rural attributes of the territory, celebrate rural cultural identity and generate a feeling of rural pride.

 

The opening ceremony featured Fina Suárez, president of Aider; José Carlos Guerra Mansito, photographer and exhibition coordinator; and Juani Vega, manager of Aider. This exhibition, now opening in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (running from March 20 to 30), will also travel to rural areas of the island. Five other municipalities and locations will showcase the work: Valsequillo (April 2-12), Tunte-San Bartolomé de Tirajana (April 16-27), Vega de San Mateo (April 30-May 9), Tejeda (May 14-24), and Caideros de Gáldar (May 28-June 7).

 

The exhibition will be enlivened by other activities that will take place at the exhibition venues, such as the presentation of the book “The Women of Wine of Gran Canaria”, published by AIDER Gran Canaria, which brings together stories of life, land and female leadership (March 25, 6:30 p.m.); the musical performance of Lajalada, who will be accompanied by Anibal Llarena and Ner Suárez (March 26, 6:30 p.m.); and the participatory performance “Vernaculares”, by Alicia Pardilla (March 27, 6:30 p.m.), an encounter to explore gesture and collective identity.

 

In parallel, introductory workshops on creating art inspired by the rural environment have been developed for groups of rural youth, whose work is also exhibited alongside the artists' photographs and creations. In this first workshop, the participants were children from the Caideros de Gáldar one-room schoolhouse, a group of boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 12. 

 

The participating artists were Arcadio Suárez Ramírez, Aurora Jiménez Suárez, BelDenMar, David Delfour, David Rodríguez Benítez, Juan Méndez Santana (Echo), M. Elena Feral, Elia Verona, Elsa Molina González, Francisco Molina González, Frank Hernández, Gustavo Martín, Irene León, Javier Gil León, José Carlos Guerra Mansito, Leandro Betancor Fajardo, Leire García Matilla, Mara Ramírez, Mónica Rodríguez Medina, J. Morgan, Nacho González Oramas, Orlando Torres Sánchez, Priscila Valencia, Quique Curbelo, Sara Yun, Saro Acosta, and Yuri Millares. As Juani Vega stated during her presentation, “it’s about feeling pride in rural life.”