Rosângela Rennó

Curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio, director of MALBA, the first large-scale solo show of works by Rosângela Rennó in Spain is on exhibit through December 21st at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas. The exhibition reviews the artist's relationship with memory and images that duplicate, Since the start of her career in the 1980s, Rennó has been exploring, on the basis of portraiture, the reasons and consequences of the dissolution of personal and collective identity. She compiles and reuses images from private or public archives and family albums, as well as news articles, to generate with them meanings that are new and different from the original. The show presents a conceptual tour of her work in the last 25 years, including her most recent projects. The majority of the works on exhibit delve on the notion of "unveiling", not only with regards to photographic image development but also in connection to the imagery and production connected to that process and the construction of images from a post-colonial perspective. The show features installations based on Rennó's research of pre-Hispanic cultures and their formal languages, carried out over the past few months at the CAAM, projects that materialize on a variety of supports her vision of the Canary Islands' aboriginal culture and propose a novel dialog between the modes of communication employed by those groups and the tupi, a Brazilian ethnic group.