DENOUNCEMENT AND ORIGIN IN TABITA REZAIRE
Nebulosa de la calabaza is the title of the first solo exhibition presented in Spain by Tabita Rezaire (Paris, France, 1989), an artist living in French Guiana. Renowned for her use of new media and multidisciplinarity to explore the relationship between contemporary worlds transited from technology and their relationship with the most ancestral and spiritual environment, the Guyanese-heritage artist focuses her production on activism from the perspective of denunciation from feminism and decolonization as key points.
For that reason, it is not surprising that the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and the TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation, organizers of the exhibition, have opted to present a show that has fit perfectly into the curatorial lines that, for some time now, the Madrid institution has been executing and that deal with the decolonizing urgency and the feminist approach.
However, the exhibition does not delve into the formal aspects of Rezaire's best-known techniques, or not at first glance, and Nebulosa de la calabaza ends up by picking up a proposal much more focused on the roots and the primordial in which those new technologies take a back seat to express, in a masterful way, the reunion with the origin buried under Western influence.
In a more or less participatory way, the artist proposes through three installations the understanding and connection with this vital cycle and spirituality as a means. Just as the maxim that the last thing a people has left is its religion and its language is understood, the former takes on an essential protagonism. Of the three works or spaces presented, two of them are dedicated to the orisha Yemoja, the main spirit of the Yoruba religion, mother of rivers and oceans, symbol of the origin and perpetuity of life, and which channels the viewer's interaction to find an immaterial connection through space.
It is precisely the construction of these immersive environments that serves to enclose the possibilities of interconnection and even the performance by the spectator of rituals without disengaging from certain techniques that, like video or the arrangement of the elements, allude to the counterbalance of reality. This invitation to participation leads to mimicry for a limited time in the original knowledge through the vehicle of the rite, one of those anchor points that can well be used as an instrument for the reconstruction of the primordial belonging and collective identity and that, unfortunately, is not complemented by that of the own language, absent in favor of that of the colonizer, also an element of repression and eradication.
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Tabita Rezaire. Nebulosa de la calabaza en Thyssen Bornemisza
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Tabita Rezaire. Nebulosa de la calabaza en Thyssen Bornemisza
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Tabita Rezaire. Nebulosa de la calabaza en Thyssen Bornemisza
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Tabita Rezaire. Nebulosa de la calabaza en Thyssen Bornemisza
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Tabita Rezaire. Nebulosa de la calabaza en Thyssen Bornemisza
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Tabita Rezaire. Nebulosa de la calabaza en Thyssen Bornemisza
Tabita Rezaire. Nebulosa de la calabaza can be seen until January 12, 2025 at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Paseo del Prado, 8, Madrid (Spain).
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