"Satellite Garden" and "The Forest Must Dance for There to Be a Party"

Until September 26, 2021, the TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes presents the exhibitions "Jardín Satélite" and "Para que haya fiesta tiene que danzar el bosque." Both exhibitions address vital issues for our time from divergent perspectives, which allude to the ideas of natural vs. artificial. A spatial design was proposed integrating two exhibition spaces, the Documentation Center, El Rectángulo (Space for live arts and public activities), and the Art Library to rethink the TEA's capacity as a place to be.
"Satellite Garden," curated by Gilberto Gonzalez and Silvia Navarro Martin, delves into the idea of a garden as a metaphor for the daydreams of our species and poses a reflection on the concept of nature. The insular director of Culture, Alejandro Krawietz, explained that this exhibition "manages, through the theme of the garden, to question the contemporary world from very transversal fields. The idea of the Anthropocene of sustainability is present in the garden's idea, but so are other concepts that are perhaps less obvious, such as the idea of the real or the unreal."
Gilberto Gonzalez pointed out that TEA intends with this exhibition to question the very concept of nature. Thus, the works of Álvaro Urbano (Madrid), Cristóbal Tabares (Tenerife), Samuel M. Delgado (Tenerife) & Helena Girón (Santiago de Compostela), Michal Baror (Israel), Marinella Pirelli (Italy), Martin Howse (United Kingdom), Martin Llavaneras (El Segrià), Andrea Carrillo (Mexico), Yosi Negrín (Tenerife), Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) and Anónimas; "they refer us to the whole problematic that crosses us."
"The Forest Must Dance for There to Be a Party" is a project curated by Michy Marxuach in collaboration with multiple transhemispheric voices and invites us to perceive the signs and open a conversation with the forest and, in this way, learn together ways for a transition of solidarity and planetary protection. The exhibition proposes crossings, concentration, and dissemination to trace paths and encounters between diverse artistic processes. Its will is to offer a space of parliament that continues to add voices and participation during the exhibition process.
The exhibition is made up of some twenty multidisciplinary projects and offers a selection of works from the TEA collection. So, works by Andreu Alfaro, José Ramón Anda, María Belén Morales, Joaquín Rubio Camín, Martín Chirino, Esperanza D'Ors, José Luis Fajardo, Jorge González, José Herrera, Walter Marchietti, Aurelia Muñoz, Stipo Pranyko and Eusebio Sempere dialogue with some of the exhibited projects.
Among the participating artists are: Carla Zacagnini (Argentina), Cecilia Vicuña (Chile), Chris Marker and Alain Resnais (France), Dominique Ratton, Ensayos (Christy Gast, Camila Marambio, Rosario Ureta, Alejandra Figueroa, Hemany, Carolina León Valdebenito, Gabriela Mataloni, Nicole Püschel, Antonieta Eguren, Adriana Urciuolo, Bárbara Saavedra, Carolina Saquel, Caitlin Franzmann, Hemany Molina, Carla Macchiavello, Denise Milstein and Randi Nygård), Florian Dombois, Jochi Melero, Mónica Rodríguez, Onda Corta (Néstor Delgado and Maria Laura Benavente) and Transhemisférica (Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Maria Kamilla Larsen, Taru Elfving and Michy Marxuach).
This exhibition also contains multiple sound works that the visitor will be able to listen to directly through their cellphones, so it is recommended to bring headphones.