Toledo.- Milagros Tolón, delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, has inaugurated, together with the Secretary of State for Culture, Jordi Martí, the exhibition “A vision of oneself”, in the Museo del Greco, in Toledo, which shows portraits of women from the world of culture photographed by ten women from the collective Como Ser Fotografa.
Milagros Tolón has indicated that International Women’s Day should be 365 days a year, “but now with more reason. And I would like to congratulate the director of the Museo del Greco, Rosa Becerril; and the director of the Museo Sefardí, Carmen Álvarez, two women who run the state museums of Toledo.”
The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha has stressed the fact that they are photographs of 26 women made by ten other women, “26 referents in culture, art, aesthetics, literature… And photographers who have known how to see the soul of each woman. Women who portray women and express something very important, which is the sorority of women. Because it’s time to love ourselves, to expose what we have inside, that art, that sensitivity and that fidelity to ourselves.”
“Women Referents Breaking Glass Ceilings”
In short, Milagros Tolón has expressed, “26 portraits of women where art, aesthetics, design are expressed… Women who have been referents and break glass ceilings. At this moment, when equality is questioned, it is we who have to be here, giving visibility to equality. I feel deeply feminist, because being feminist is believing in equality between women and men. And all administrations have to be the guide for women to have their space, because we are more than 50 percent of the population.”
“An anomaly,” said Jordi Martí
For his part, Jordi Martí, Secretary of State for Culture, who was very happy “to be at this inauguration”, began his speech by saying that “having to continue making exhibitions claiming the role of women in the cultural field is an anomaly, it is shameful that equality in the field of culture is still a pending subject”.
Because, he said, “yes, we have achieved equality in opportunities, but we are still a long way away in the results. An anomaly that we must continue to denounce because it is the only way to help solve it, although as the delegate of the Government said, today almost as an anomaly of history, there are sectors of the population and political sectors that deny the same problem.”
Finally, stressing that “what is an anomaly also becomes what we are losing as a society, not complying with the right of any woman to have the same space in the cultural ecosystem that we have traditionally had men”.
The exhibition “A Vision of Oneself”
The exhibition “A Vision of One’s Own” will be open until May 26, 2024. The exhibition, curated by Marta Soul and organized by the Subdirectorate General of State Museums, collects a set of portraits made by ten authors of the collective “How to Be a Photographer” to women in the contemporary cultural field.
Paula Anta, Soledad Córdoba, Angélica Dass, Estela de Castro, Carmela García, Laura M. Lombardy, Elisa Miralles, Sofía Moro, Gloria Oyarzábl and María Platero are the ten photographers.
And Beatriz Arzamendi, Isabel Coixet, Colita, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Chus Gutiérrez, Lucía Mbomio, Mamen Mendizábal, Rosa Montero, Sara Navarro, Blanca Portillo, Christina Rosenvinge or Silvia Superstar are some of the artists portrayed.
The title of the exhibition is inspired by an essay by Virginia Wolf, “A Room of One’s Own”, a work that claims the importance of women having economic independence and a physical and metaphorical space of their own.
The exhibition can be seen from Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30 to 19:30 hours, and on Sundays and public holidays from 10:00 to 15:00 hours.