Rereading the Collection
The core of any museum is its collection. The collection is a patrimonial symbol of a shared cultural memory. A territory and a culture build their identity through memory. In order to keep the memory active and not just nostalgic, it needs to be critical and self-critical, willing to continually revise itself. The function of a museum is to create one such memory and to keep it alive through countless re-readings, interpretations and research that question and that do not shy away from difficult perspectives. The temporary displays are intimately connected and linked to the collection, being as they are, another aspect of the museum's memory, a way to enrich the collection and also to accompany the artists that remain closer, those that contribute to the symbolic enrichment of the culture.
Within this project of contextualization and revision of CGAC’s collection, four expositive proposals are displayed, in which different themes are developed and which embody a counter-dialogue with other collections, public and private, linked with the CGAC and Galicia: Galician public and private collections, museum collections with which the CGAC shares temporary displays (CAAC of Sevilla and MUN of Pamplona) or collections that have maintained a special link with the CGAC, like the ARCO Collection and its current venue in CA2M of Móstoles.
Exhibition brochures: States of Exception, Essay of a Visual Culture and Louise Bourgeois. Cell.