CGAC provides an overview of the Guerrilla Girls’ fight against discrimination against women

“In these galleries, less than 10% of the works on display, if any, are by female artists.” “What is modern, is it prestigious and is it tax-deductible? Discriminate against women and non-white artists”. “Do women have to be naked to enter the Met Museum? Less than 5% of the artists in the modern art sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are women.” “Oscar is anatomically correct. He is white, like almost all the winners. They are only part of the hundred or so messages that until June 18 occupy the ground floor of the CGAC (Galician Center for Contemporary Art, in Santiago), which exhibits portfolio of the anonymous female and anti-racist art collective New York Guerrilla Girls, between 1985 and 2016.

Actions and works initiated by the members of this feminist action group, known for using gorilla masks to hide their faces, over more than three decades, are arranged chronologically. “This distribution allows us to see the evolution in terms of ideas and forms,” ​​emphasized CGAC director Santiago Olmo. Criticism of discrimination against women in art has been extended to other areas, including racial, LGTBI groups…

The exhibition comes to CGAC thanks to the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC), as it was the museum chosen by the Guerrillas Girls to sell portfolioDefined by the collective itself as a sample of “artistic conscience” – which includes a multitude of posters, stickers, drawings and graphic publications, among others, with harsh criticism. “They do everything from a witty and ironic point of view, because that way it’s easier to convey the message,” pointed out Yolanda Torrubia, from CAAC, also the sample’s curator.

Along the route there is no shortage of tell-tale yellow signs or frequent pink letters sent to representatives of the cultural system. It is not on display, but CGAC received one in 2021 in which the Guerrilla Girls voiced their grievances that women were not included in the Art History content of Abau 21/22. The general director of Kulture, Anxo Lorenzo, praised the exhibition which “it allows you to think about topics of absolute importance».