Exhibitions
Micaela Maisa explains what she saw at the La Posta Foundation
Complexity of the gaze and the invisible element in La Posta de Valencia.
Critical reflection on vision and gender from the perspective of Micaela Maisa at the La Posta Foundation with an exhibition entitled I came to tell them what I saw, curated by Alejandro Mañas, professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The artist's critical and poetic journey, with what is visible, the power of vision and the mysteries that can be found in everyday life.
Society lives in a hypervisual context, full of elements and with a significant saturation of images and optical devices. Maisa creates at the Fundación La Posta (C/Pintor Fillol, 2) a moment of pause, of rethinking and considering perception again and from there she leads us to an exploration of everything that is shown, but also of the hidden elements. The final question after visiting the exhibition that one must ask oneself is about concepts of identity, gender and subjectivity.
Inaugurated on June 6, the exhibition will be on view until July 5 by an artist, Micaela Maisa, originally from Argentina, residing in the city of Valencia, with an interdisciplinary approach, taking on great power in her work the gaze, the visual element and the forms of reflection with the entire environment that surrounds contemporary society.
This combination between the artist's work and the curatorship of Alejandro Mañas gives a striking journey to the La Posta Foundation in Valencia and three interrelated cores: vision as technology, affection and the ritual part. In Beware the Stare, one of the works on display, Maisa resorts to cinematographic codes and feminist criticism to highlight the violence inscribed in the male gaze, proposing tears as a sensitive and political interruption.
Micaela Maisa creates through installations, collage, writing with exhibitions at IVAM, La Casa Encedida in Madrid or the Center del Carme. In this new temporary exhibition, she invites us to look again with a pause at the details that often go unnoticed and the gaze must seek everything that is everyday with a new way of looking and, above all, being looked at.
