In the Gallery with Diego Casseres for the exhibition Kalabongó
Date: Wednesday, July 17
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Guests: Diego Casseres (artist) and Ana Ruiz (Jr. curator)
Location: Gallery C
Admission with ticket purchase at the box office
Guided tour of the exhibition Kalabongo
En Sala con is a space to delve deeper into the curatorial vision of the Museum’s exhibitions, interact directly with artists and curators, and learn firsthand about the motivations and contexts of the exhibitions. On this occasion, we will visit the exhibition Kalabongo accompanied by Diego Casseres, from the collective Konda Ku Monikongo, for a specialized tour in which we will discuss the ideas and motivations that arise around this exhibition.
About the exhibition
In some areas, people remember that the cimarrones (a colonial term for fugitive enslaved people) flew over the lands, fought troops, and defended the first palenques. The title of this exhibition derives from an allegorical universe in which fireflies (kalabongo in the Palenquero language) are the escaped Africans who fight with bats (colonizers) in a battle where darkness is an accomplice of freedom. Kalabongo asks about the meaning of images for a society, and about artistic practices as tools for political action, historical vindication, and the recovery and reconstruction of local knowledge linked to ancestral cosmogonies.