Teresa Lanceta is an artist with a long career centred on textiles, which she revisits from her own interdisciplinary practice and its material, historical and anthropological implications. She holds a PhD in Art History and won the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2023. She has exhibited her work at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Patio Herreriano, IVAM, MACBA, Ca2M… and, most recently, at MoMA. In recent times, she has been carrying out a unique project that traces the history of Spain through its textiles.
The Museo Arqueológico Nacional is hosting an exhibition by the artist in the Iberian culture galleries on the first floor, around the Iberian patio (room 12). It is based on an unusual project, since very few textiles from the Iberian period have survived. Lanceta has made tapestries and fold studies based on those seen in the Damas sculpted in stone, and also in the landscape surrounding the archaeological sites. Mantle, fold and covering are textile terms also used to describe orographic processes or constructive and ornamental motifs; in this way, the life of textiles is placed at the centre of morphological processes that are radically different in their temporality, such as geological and artistic ones.
This exhibition is the fourth instalment of the exhibition series titled Memoria, tejidos, museos. Los barrios bajos de la atención, curated by Selina Blasco and Patricia Molins in collaboration with contemporary artists and museum teams. The earlier episodes have been presented at the Museo del Traje (with Narelle Jubelin), the Museo Nacional del Romanticismo (with Las hijas de Felipe) and the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (with Patricia Esquivias).
> Guided tours by the exhibition curators
> Guided tours by technicians from the Protohistory Department of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional
> Visit + biodanza workshop for families (children aged 4 to 9)
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