ExhibitionMarch 5, 2021
HERland: Women Artists in the MOLAA Collection
HERland: Women artists in the MOLAA Collection curated by Gabriela Urtiaga, chief curator, is the virtual exhibition that the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach (MOLAA) launched a few days ago. This exhibition was planned to be presented during the spring of 2020.
HERland is a tribute to the novel by American feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in 1915 with the same title, which portrays a utopian paradise inhabited only by women. Starting from the current need in the world to open spaces for discussion about the empowerment of women, race, class, and equity, MOLAA presents in this exhibition an imaginary territory, based on the works of these artists, where their different approaches and even their diverse ways of looking, define a powerful new land with new meanings.
The exhibition seeks a new approach for the public to the history of the museum and broadening the perspective and delving into works that deal with themes, often invisible to the history of art, such as the creations of women artists.
HERland focuses on 56 works by Latinx and Latin American artists who, with a unique poetic style, continued a path started at the beginning of the 20th century linked to a dreamlike and surreal representation, imagination, limits, and distortions, exploring possible worlds in connection with the feminine unconscious, and personal ideology.
By approaching to an infinite imaginary of ideas and concepts, where each artist explores their creations, through paintings, photographs and figurative and symbolic drawings, the depths of fantasy, mystery, illusion, the dream from a clear singular point of view where the work functions as a matrix to be deciphered. Where questions are glimpsed in each portrait, scene, object, strangeness, generated by the dialogue with the surrealist inventory in the modern and contemporary scene.
This exhibition can be found on the MOLAA's website (www.molaa.org) throughout the year, and will be in its galleries when the museum's doors reopen. MOLAA celebrates its 25th anniversary. Kunstmatrix was the chosen platform because it allows you to simulate the experience of a face-to-face visit to the museum: browse through the rooms, acquire historical information about the exhibited works and zoom in to admire their details.
Artists: Adriana Arenas, Leyla Cárdenas, Sara Modiano, Ofelia Rodriguez and Doris Salcedo from Colombia; Cássia Aresta, María Bonomi, Sonia Ebling, Yole Travassos, Monica Vendramini and María Villares from Brazil; Carmen Argote, Jackelyn Barajas, Marianela de la Hoz, Cristina Garza, Miriam Medrez, Brenda Obregón Velázquez and Claudia Rodríguez from Mexico; Luisa Elena Betancourt, Amalia Caputo, Fabiana Cruz, Elba Damast and Lucia Pizzani from Venezuela; Tania Bruguera, Ivonne Ferrer and Sandra Ramos from Cuba; Leonora Carrington from England; Gitte Daehlin from Norway; Daniela Edburg, Yolanda González, Patssi Valdez and Linda Vallejo from USA; Susana Espinosa, Raquel Forner, Marta Minujín, Liliana Porter, Carolina Sardi and Nina Surel from Argentina; Natalia Iguiñiz from Peru; Cecilia Miguez from Uruguay; Raquel Paiewonsky from the Dominican Republic; Veronica Riedel from Guatemala; Ana Rosa Rivera and Paloma Todd from Puerto Rico.
HERland is a tribute to the novel by American feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in 1915 with the same title, which portrays a utopian paradise inhabited only by women. Starting from the current need in the world to open spaces for discussion about the empowerment of women, race, class, and equity, MOLAA presents in this exhibition an imaginary territory, based on the works of these artists, where their different approaches and even their diverse ways of looking, define a powerful new land with new meanings.
The exhibition seeks a new approach for the public to the history of the museum and broadening the perspective and delving into works that deal with themes, often invisible to the history of art, such as the creations of women artists.
HERland focuses on 56 works by Latinx and Latin American artists who, with a unique poetic style, continued a path started at the beginning of the 20th century linked to a dreamlike and surreal representation, imagination, limits, and distortions, exploring possible worlds in connection with the feminine unconscious, and personal ideology.
By approaching to an infinite imaginary of ideas and concepts, where each artist explores their creations, through paintings, photographs and figurative and symbolic drawings, the depths of fantasy, mystery, illusion, the dream from a clear singular point of view where the work functions as a matrix to be deciphered. Where questions are glimpsed in each portrait, scene, object, strangeness, generated by the dialogue with the surrealist inventory in the modern and contemporary scene.
This exhibition can be found on the MOLAA's website (www.molaa.org) throughout the year, and will be in its galleries when the museum's doors reopen. MOLAA celebrates its 25th anniversary. Kunstmatrix was the chosen platform because it allows you to simulate the experience of a face-to-face visit to the museum: browse through the rooms, acquire historical information about the exhibited works and zoom in to admire their details.
Artists: Adriana Arenas, Leyla Cárdenas, Sara Modiano, Ofelia Rodriguez and Doris Salcedo from Colombia; Cássia Aresta, María Bonomi, Sonia Ebling, Yole Travassos, Monica Vendramini and María Villares from Brazil; Carmen Argote, Jackelyn Barajas, Marianela de la Hoz, Cristina Garza, Miriam Medrez, Brenda Obregón Velázquez and Claudia Rodríguez from Mexico; Luisa Elena Betancourt, Amalia Caputo, Fabiana Cruz, Elba Damast and Lucia Pizzani from Venezuela; Tania Bruguera, Ivonne Ferrer and Sandra Ramos from Cuba; Leonora Carrington from England; Gitte Daehlin from Norway; Daniela Edburg, Yolanda González, Patssi Valdez and Linda Vallejo from USA; Susana Espinosa, Raquel Forner, Marta Minujín, Liliana Porter, Carolina Sardi and Nina Surel from Argentina; Natalia Iguiñiz from Peru; Cecilia Miguez from Uruguay; Raquel Paiewonsky from the Dominican Republic; Veronica Riedel from Guatemala; Ana Rosa Rivera and Paloma Todd from Puerto Rico.
