PHOTOESPAÑA 2024 Presents 'LAS HIJAS DE MINERVA': An Installation Exploring 19th-Century Gender Roles

This exhibition is a photographic installation and performance project by artists Laura San Segundo and Alejandría Cinque, presented as part of PHotoESPAÑA 2024. It engages with the museum's collection and the recreated 19th-century bourgeois setting, particularly exploring gender roles suggested by the historical use of domestic spaces.

As part of PHotoESPAÑA 2024, artists Laura San Segundo and Alejandría Cinque present 'LAS HIJAS DE MINERVA,' a photographic and performative installation that dialogs with the museum's collection and its recreated 19th-century bourgeois domestic environment. For the first time, PHotoESPAÑA extends beyond its usual temporary exhibition space to engage directly with the noble floor of the recreated dwelling, reinterpreting its meaning in a contemporary context. The artists use the Billiard Room, a space historically associated with masculine social activities, as a starting point to develop their personal perspectives on the gendered questions suggested by the room's collection of 19th-century female portraits and the room's design, which positioned women as mere spectators. This exhibition critically examines the historical division of domestic spaces according to the gender roles of the Romantic era.

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