The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, participated this Thursday in the inauguration of the exhibition 'From the nomadic BEING to the BEING without place' of Montserrat Soto at the headquarters of the ENAIRE Foundation in the Diques de Gamazo, in Santander, where it can be visited until next June 15.
During his speech, Gómez de Diego highlighted the role of the ENAIRE Foundation in the consolidation of the Naves de Gamazo as a "cultural and artistic reference in Cantabria and Spain". "You are very proud as a cultural and artistic space of reference. Democratize culture as a universal right and good, taking it, moreover, with your imagination and museographic resources, to any place in the world," he said.
The delegate also congratulated Montserrat Soto for her career and for an exhibition that, according to her words, "maps us as human beings and helps us to understand ourselves through memory and the spaces in which we live". Gómez de Diego highlighted that the exhibition invites us to reflect on the nomadism of the human being, belonging and adaptability, in addition to highlighting the role of the ENAIRE Foundation in the promotion of photography as a form of artistic expression.
"Thank you, Montserrat, because your art reveals a new sensibility and helps us to reinterpret not only our vision of the present, but also of our future and thought," he said. In addition, it has reiterated its appreciation to the team of the ENAIRE Foundation for its work in cultural diffusion and for bringing art to all audiences.
At the event, in which he was accompanied by the managing director of the Foundation, Margarita Asuar, as well as other authorities and representatives of the cultural field, Gómez de Diego stressed the importance of collaboration between administrations, mentioning the alliance between the Ministry of Transport, the Port Authority of Santander and the Government of Cantabria, which allows the sustainability of this cultural project.
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'Doom City. From being nomadic to being without a place' is an exhibition in which Montserrat Soto, II Fundación ENAIRE Trajectory Award and National Photography Award 2019, has created a personal and visual atlas, made of photographs, videos, sculptures, flags, books... that comprises a period between 2004 and 2019.
During this time we have experienced great changes in the world and, through the project, Soto tries to search through the captured image, the singularity of the movements of different societies that try to perpetuate themselves through cunning, ingenuity, tolerance, inclusion or rejection.
In them, the artist tries to understand the human being through both individual and collective resolutive forms. To do this, he has toured real scenarios ranging from Damascus to New York, passing through Namibia, Tunisia, Cuba, Sao Paulo, Caracas, Jerusalem, Mauritania, Paris, Madrid or Barcelona, among others.