Marina Vargas: Revelations

The exhibition Marina Vargas: Revelations is part of the “Kora” programme through which the Museo Thyssen is promoting the visibility of work by currently practising women artists from a gender perspective. 

For this exhibition Marina Vargas (born Granada, 1980) has worked on a research project focused on the silencing of women throughout history, particularly in the history of the sacred and the spiritual, a subject she has already investigated in previous projects and which she now centres on revealing contributions made by women. From the starting point of the figure of Mary Magdalene, studied by feminist theologians such as Karen King (Harvard University), Cynthia Bourgeault (University of Pennsylvania) and Meggan Watterson (Columbia University), Vargas constructs an exhibition argument which explores the figures of women in the history of art and imagery but also in the biblical account based on their biography and personal experiences, applying a contemporary perspective that sets out to disrupt the patriarchal silence which has relegated them to the background. These “Revelations” show what has been concealed through a new work that will be presented in this exhibition for the first time.  

Curator: Semíramis González. Kora programme.