DATE: 16 July - 13 September 2009 "Fluido Rosa" of RNE-Radio 3
Listen it: http://mareasmigratorias.com/tv-radio/ The programme: ttp://www.rtve.es/mediateca/audios/20090823/fluido-rosa-mareas-migratorias-agosto-2009/571201.shtmldel The artistic collective "elojodearena" (theeyeofsand), with the support of Casa África and the CAAM, presents the project Mareas Migratorias (Migratory Tides), a new way of seeing the phenomenon of clandestine migration between Africa and the Canary Islands.  Coinciding with the exhibition Mareas Migratorias (Migratory Tides), the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno - CAAM is asking each visitor to the show to donate a new or used coloured pencil. These can be deposited in the mountains of sand in Balcones 9. On the last day of the exhibition (6/9/2009), they will be handed over to the International Immigrants Foundation to be sent to African children, many of whom do not even know what a pencil is.
Mareas Migratorias – Interventions on the frontier between the Canary Islands and Africa When Gaston Bachelard wrote The Poetics of Space, he asked that we take images "as sudden events in life", precisely because "when the image is new, the world is new". Today, more than ever, the new image must be taken with a full moral and political conscience. Mareas Migratorias emerged from the need to find a new way of looking at the phenomenon of clandestine migration, in this case from Africa to the Canary Islands. It is about getting to the bottom of the power and influence of "the image" in the migratory movement. Mareas Migratorias “speaks without words” and borrows the rhythm of the tide to make visible and decipher the imagination of young Africans. Óscar Rodríguez has brought forth the new image by means of large-scale drawings made on the sand of the beach. This is the last surface that the emigrants tread before embarking on the journey to their European dream, and it is also the first they tread when they arrive here, those of them who make it. The drawings are made during the full moon, and take advantage of the longest tides, with the space in which the image is born borrowed from the sea. The migratory movements, just like the tide itself, are incessant. This activity takes place in the frontier space between Africa and the Canary Islands. On both sides of this frontier, “elojodearena” proposed the same task to Senegalese children and young people: "Draw what you imagine Europe to be". The new image can be seen only because the rhythm of the tide allows it. And at the same time as that which they imagine Europe to be emerges, the sea shows us with its waves that the destruction of the image of the dominant world is possible. “elojodearena”. Original idea by Óscar Rodríguez. Co-creators: Gloria Godínez and Juanan Eguiguren. Guest photographer: Mamadou Gomis (Dakar).  Intervention in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria  Intervention in Dakar |