WE ARE WOMEN AND WE ARE HERE. VÍDEO PERFORMANCE BY YOLANDA HERRANZ PASCUAL [DIM, INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 2020]

Dates:

18 May 2020 - 20 September 2020

With the collaboration of: Deputación de Pontevedra

In this work, two series of 690 words in alphabetical order starting with the letter ‘A’ and all extracted from the Dictionary of the Spanish Language are recited in feminine and plural. They all refer to the existence or to the state of women. An infinite, modular, repeated reading, like a voice that is confused and multiplies in its echoes.

Coinciding with International Museum Day, MARCO will offer on its website and YouTube channel a recorded version of this performance, an example of Yolanda Herranz's pioneering career in feminist vindication; a work that starts from individual reflection and becomes a public, collective voice.

Participants: Yolanda Herranz Pascual (artist), Pilar Souto Soto (exhibition’s curator), Mónica Lago Tomé (Friends of MARCO Association), Patricia Verdial Garay (MARCO Secretary’s Office), Carla Beatriz Mañas Gallidoro (intern at the Friends of MARCO Association), María Xosé Martínez Pérez (MARCO Educational Team), Sara Loureiro Araujo (intern at MARCO Exhibitions Dept.), Iria Fernández Mouriz (MARCO Library-Documentation Center), Arancha Aguete de Pazos (art historian), Celeste Garrido Meira (artist).

Recipients: general publi

Yolanda Herranz's work and the exhibition “...NO, AÚN NO…” […NO, NOT YET...] (currently on view on the 1st floor) offers an excellent starting point in relation to this edition’s International Museum Day. More specifically, the mural installation titled WE ARE women and WE ARE here, which develops from an action of the artist's first performance carried out in 2012.

In this work, two series of 690 words in alphabetical order starting with the letter ‘A’ and all extracted from the Dictionary of the Spanish Language are recited in feminine and plural. They all refer to the existence or to the state of women. An infinite, modular, repeated reading, like a voice that is confused and multiplies in its echoes.

Coinciding with International Museum Day, MARCO will offer on its website and YouTube channel a recorded version of this performance, an example of Yolanda Herranz's pioneering career in feminist vindication; a work that starts from individual reflection and becomes a public, collective voice.

Participants: Yolanda Herranz Pascual (artist), Pilar Souto Soto (exhibition’s curator), Mónica Lago Tomé (Friends of MARCO Association), Patricia Verdial Garay (MARCO Secretary’s Office), Carla Beatriz Mañas Gallidoro (intern at the Friends of MARCO Association), María Xosé Martínez Pérez (MARCO Educational Team), Sara Loureiro Araujo (intern at MARCO Exhibitions Dept.), Iria Fernández Mouriz (MARCO Library-Documentation Center), Arancha Aguete de Pazos (art historian), Celeste Garrido Meira (artist).

Recipients: general public