The exhibition, which is part of the Cabildo's 'Itinerary' circuit, is on display at the Víctor Jara Theater until December 17, bringing together the work of six creators
The exhibition hall of the Víctor Jara Theater in Vecindario exhibits the group exhibition 'The skin has its reasons', which brings together the work of the three photographers Olga Díaz, Sonsoles León and Celia Peñas, to which are added the voices of the poets Ana Brito, Soraya Rodríguez and Elia Verona.
The aforementioned exhibition curated by the creator Elia Verona is organized by the Department of Plastic Arts of the Culture Department of the Gran Canaria Cabildo, with the collaboration of the Santa Lucía City Council. The aforementioned exhibition can be visited until December 17, Monday to Friday, from 18:00 p.m. to 21:00 p.m.
This is one of the samples included in 'Itineraria', the plastic arts circuit that the Cabildo takes throughout the year to different cultural spaces in the municipalities of Gran Canaria. This same sample has already visited the municipalities of Agaete, Firgas, Artenara, Gáldar, Moya, Mogán and San Mateo.
This collective investigates the particular and unprecedented look of these six creators around the skin. It is a look at the world that surrounds them and the skin that surrounds them. The skin is memory, scar, grief, absence, time. The skin is contact and it is a border, it is a limit and an encounter. The skin is the outermost part of the body, on which the gaze is physically placed. The photograph that focuses on the skin or the word that names it, supposes a look at it, each of those looks makes what it looks at exist, and also allows the person who observes to shine through.
This project is, at the same time, a contribution to the collective voice of women artists, to their presence as creators in the art circuits and a step forward for six who dare to finally show their creations, after so many years of hidden path.
The work of Olga Díaz from Tenerife, specialized in community development and family therapy, has allowed her to shape a more critical vision of the causes of gender inequalities and the place that women occupy in society. For her part, Sonsoles León from Gran Canaria, a sociologist and specialist in digital marketing, considers the image as a tool for social study. In 2019 she won the First Prize for Photography from the Mapfre Guanarteme Foundation. The winning photo is part of this project. Finally, Celia Peñas from Badajoz has dedicated most of her professional activity to development cooperation in Latin America and Africa. Passionate about the visual arts, her creative exploration leads her to individual, animal, social and collective portraiture, seeking both uniqueness and the reflection of communion, of affinity between people and beings.
The images of the aforementioned artists are joined by the words of the Canarian poets Ana Isabel Brito, "intramuros" writer; Soraya Rodríguez who conceives culture understood as an indisputable democratic tool of social and personal change, Elia Verona, who in 2013 decided to leave her job to dedicate herself to art full time.