Four Contemporary Art Exhibitions at Casa de la Cultura
Four free contemporary art shows in the town's Casa de la Cultura, exploring memory, empire and identity through painting, sculpture and textile work, including a 'cabinet of curiosities' and a piece on imperial expansion. Visual art needs little Spanish, making it an easy cultural stop in Guia's old town.
The Francis Naranjo Foundation has filled Guia's Casa de la Cultura with four separate shows, and they pull no punches. Cristina Deniz reworks the old European cabinet of curiosities into a collection of "relics of the Anthropocene", where you can't quite tell what's natural and what's been made. Luis Montes Rojas takes apart the Plus Ultra banners from the Pillars of Hercules to poke at empire and old stories of conquest. Abraham Riveron's room deals with silenced memory through archives and the body. The fourth, curated by Naranjo himself, gathers several artists around textile work and what it means to weave.
It's free, the rooms are small, and you don't need Spanish to follow any of it. Opening hours run Tuesday to Friday from 5 to 8pm, and Saturday mornings 11am to 2pm. A quiet, thoughtful hour in the old town.