The Government delegate in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, participated this Friday in the inauguration of the exhibition 'A new history', by the renowned photographer Isabel Muñoz, at the National Museum and Research Center of Altamira. Accompanied by the director of the museum, Pilar Fatás; the director of the National Center of Photography, Mónica Carabias; the commissioner Blanca Berlin, and the director of the National Museum of Anthropology, Fernando Sáez Lara, Gómez de Diego highlighted the value of this exhibition as "a journey to the heart of the human".
During her speech, the delegate pointed out that the exhibition transcends the purely artistic to become "a door forward", which connects the present with the origins of the human being. "Isabel Muñoz, one of the great looks of our time, invites us to cross the threshold of the present to meet again with the origins. He doesn’t just look at the past: he listens to it, he feels it and he reinterprets it,” he said.
The exhibition, the fruit of a work by the artist in Anatolia, proposes a visual dialogue between contemporary art, archaeology and spirituality. Through light, textures and fingerprints, his images address the fundamental questions about the human condition: "What have we kept from the essential? What have we lost?, Are we still able to look to heaven with the same reverence as those early sedentary societies? ", the delegate has reflected.
Gómez de Diego also wanted to highlight the work of the National Museum and Research Center of Altamira, expressly thanking the commitment and sensitivity of its director, Pilar Fatás, "whose tireless work allows this museum to remain a beacon of knowledge, inspiration and encounter."
Finally, the delegate encouraged the citizens to visit this exhibition that, in her words, "reminds us that the past is not behind, but inside, and that by teaching it with another look we can discover new ways to inhabit the present".
The exhibition 'A New Story' will be open to the public in Altamira over the coming months, consolidating the museum's role as a space for dialogue between disciplines and generations.