REGIÓN (The Narratives)
Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water
02 Dec 2017 - 27 May 2018
REGIÓN (The Narratives),Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
ROGELIO LÓPEZ CUENCA/ ELO VEGA. los sueños del agua (2017). MUSAC/ FCAYC Production
CARLOS IRIJALBA. Pannotia (2017). FCAYC Collection
REGIÓN (The Narratives),Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
REGIÓN (The Narratives),Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Porma Reservoir (2017. Photo by Juan Luis García
REGIÓN (The Narratives),Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
REGIÓN (The Narratives),Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
REGIÓN (The Narratives),Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
REGIÓN (The Narratives),Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
REGIÓN (THE NARRATIVES)
CHANGES IN LANDSCAPE AND THE POLITICS OF WATER
2 December 2017 – 27 May 2018
Curatorship: Bruno Marcos, Alfredo Puente
The exhibition entitled REGIÓN (The Narratives). Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water is the result of the research into how great hydraulic works have produced transformations in territory. It focuses especially on the reservoirs in the north east of the province of Leon, the Juan Benet Reservoir and the Riaño Reservoir,the fiftieth and thirtieth anniversaries of which are commemorated respectively in 2017.
The project takes its title from the literary work Volverás a Región (1967) by Juan Benet (Madrid, Spain,1927-1993). The story is the conceptual starting point for the show.Benet, an engineer who built the dam of the River Porma in the Leonese valley of Vegamián, mythologisedin his novel the natural and human space that would be flooded under the waters, thus exemplifying the essential dilemma of these processes that make past and future, progress and memory antagonists.
The exhibition, installed in the galleries of the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (FCAYC) and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) assembles materials of very different types. From pictorial works to archaeological remains, material from personal archives, press cut-outs, engineering plans, hitherto unpublished expropriation files, documentaries broadcast on television, hundred-year-old books on agricultural education, films, posters or photographs, besides the work of several important contemporary artists who have reflected on the subject.
CHANGES IN LANDSCAPE AND THE POLITICS OF WATER
2 December 2017 – 27 May 2018
Curatorship: Bruno Marcos, Alfredo Puente
The exhibition entitled REGIÓN (The Narratives). Changes in Landscape and the Politics of Water is the result of the research into how great hydraulic works have produced transformations in territory. It focuses especially on the reservoirs in the north east of the province of Leon, the Juan Benet Reservoir and the Riaño Reservoir,the fiftieth and thirtieth anniversaries of which are commemorated respectively in 2017.
The project takes its title from the literary work Volverás a Región (1967) by Juan Benet (Madrid, Spain,1927-1993). The story is the conceptual starting point for the show.Benet, an engineer who built the dam of the River Porma in the Leonese valley of Vegamián, mythologisedin his novel the natural and human space that would be flooded under the waters, thus exemplifying the essential dilemma of these processes that make past and future, progress and memory antagonists.
The exhibition, installed in the galleries of the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (FCAYC) and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) assembles materials of very different types. From pictorial works to archaeological remains, material from personal archives, press cut-outs, engineering plans, hitherto unpublished expropriation files, documentaries broadcast on television, hundred-year-old books on agricultural education, films, posters or photographs, besides the work of several important contemporary artists who have reflected on the subject.