ZAFRA, OR HOW TO HARVEST REBELLION.

We will delve into the worlds proposed by Sol Calero and Santiago Sierra in the quest for the truth and provocativeness in performance, painting and installation. Using poetry, sound, taste and touch, Madrid Negro encourages us to walk through the different shows to reflect on the representation of racialised bodies in contemporary art.

On this immersive route, we will view the museum space through the metaphor of a plantation, where we will meet up with those who will accompany us in the different rooms to create a maroon network and build a plan to sabotage the colonial imaginary lurking behind art.

During this participatory investigation process, we will ask about the purpose of the works that feature our bodies and experiences. What is the basis of making us front and centre? What patterns are reproduced and what is the role of the artist as the executor of the piece?

Madrid Negro (María Paula Irizarry Gúzmán, Yeison F. García, Nieves Cisneros Pascual and Malcolm Riascos Bazán) is an artistic inquiry proposal based on studying the historical memory and contemporary heritage of Black people and Afro-descendants in the Community of Madrid.