In Villaseco del Pan it is customary to count who lives in the village. You start at one end and go through each inhabited house, skipping the abandoned and empty ones, until you reach the other end. Juan el Manojito left a list of “our elders”, dated the night of 30 October 1993, in which he gave their names, surnames, nicknames, age and fifth. María la Tremenda counted, instead of sheep, to fall asleep. When she had finished counting people, she would go over the marriages and widows, and if she still hadn't managed to sleep, she would start with the non-human ones: the donkeys and cows. A few months ago the last donkey in Villaseco died.
In this laboratory we get together to tell of presences and absences, but this time with the aim of thinking about the stories that emerge from disappearance. We have been thinking for some time about contemporary mythology, which we can define as the set of stories that affect us or as a music that we dance to even if we cannot recognise the melody, and we want to investigate which are the contemporary mythologies that affect contexts such as Villaseco or Cerezales del Condado. We call this a laboratory because it is halfway between an exhibition and a workshop. It looks like an exhibition but is in the form of a workshop. Here works are presented, as in an exhibition, but at the pace of a workshop: we talk about them.
Further information
Dates: 16/03/2023
Timetable: 11:00 a 14:00
Addressed to: Adults
Location: FCAYC
They guide:
Manuela Pedrón Nicolau, researcher, curator and mediator
Jaime González Cela, researcher, curator and mediator
Coordination FCAYC: Nadia Teixeira, Education Area FCAYC
Image credits: @hablarenarte / Image by Sara Sinaí based on the work of Fernando Sánchez Castillo
