The work chosen by... Raquel Cascales.
Cordoue. Femme Balayant

  Tuesday, February 17
  19:00 h
  Free admission

The series 'The work chosen by...' seeks to create links between the Museum's collection and different audiences in Pamplona through recommendations from prominent figures from our immediate geographical area. Guests have the opportunity to get to know the collection in depth, choose a piece that interests them, and offer their personal interpretation.

On this occasion, Raquel Cascales has chosenCordoue. Femme Balayant, 1862-1870 , by Jean Baptiste Laurent and Minier.

Raquel Cascales is a professor at the University of Navarra and deputy director of the Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies at that institution. She has been a visiting scholar at The Warburg Institute (London, 2018) and Columbia University (New York, 2022). She is a member of the board of directors of the Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (SEYTA), as well as the Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Group at the University of Navarra. Her research focuses on the aesthetics of everyday life and care.

In relation to this, he invites us to reflect on Cordoue. Femme balayant,which shows an anonymous woman sweeping. This photograph is part of a broader 19th-century movement that began to turn its attention to the ordinary, a shift that would become more radical throughout the 20th century, from Dadaism to Pop Art. But the decisive point is not simply to note that art began to reflect everyday life. What is truly relevant is relearning how to perceive the everyday aesthetically, rehabilitating our sensitivity, training our gaze to recognize form, meaning, and value in the gestures and objects that sustain life.