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The work hosted by the Museo Universidad de Navarra is Y el cuerpo se hizo pantalla o las imágenes no caen del cielo, an audiovisual piece by the artist Txuspo Poyo about the emptiness that distills in the face of the loss of the natural and cultural, a reflection on the pedagogical systems in the seminars.

 

In recent decades, the seminaries of the Franciscan Order and other Orders have been closing, and with them a pedagogical system that has been a fundamental pillar in education and generational identity has disappeared. As part of their pedagogical method, the seminaries had herbalists and a large collection of stuffed animals. Both plants and animals came from the missions in the American, African and Asian colonies. This research project connects identity with the mission diaspora, and the forgotten pedagogical systems with the construction of the exotic and colonial imaginary.

On the stage of a small theater in one of the closed seminaries, a still life has been built as a baroque scene of the seventeenth century. This still life is updated in the form of a barricade in a gesture of struggle and resistance, where the inert but expressive bodies of these animals claim a sense of destiny and uncertainty that has accompanied us since romanticism to the present day.
 

 

Txuspo Poyo (1963, Alsasua) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country. In 2001, the Marcelino Botín Foundation awarded him a scholarship for a residency at the ISCP and he studied at CADA at New York University. Subsequently he received other grants and mentions from various institutions to support him in the realization of his projects. 

His work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions and has participated in national and international group exhibitions.  

Author: Txuspo Poyo
Music: Ibón RG and Filipe Felizarlo
DIMENSIONS: 4K VIDEO
Digital video in 4k (16:9)
Duration: 21 minutes, stereo, color.
Projection: 3 x 4 meters
6 + 2 PA

Institutions participating in the project:
The institutions participating in this simultaneous temporary exhibition are Museo del Carlismo, Centro Henri Lenaerts, Ecomuseo de Zubieta, Museo y Yacimiento Arqueológico de las Eretas, Museo Decanal de Tudela, Museo de Arte Muñoz Sola, Museo Etnográfico del Reino de Navarra, Museo del Castillo de Javier, Museo-Museo Julián Gayarre, Museo del Monasterio de Tulebras, Museo Gustavo de Maeztu
Jorge Oteiza Foundation Museum, to which the Castejón Town Hall Museum has been added to replace the Museum of Navarre, which hosted the original exhibition. 

 

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