The Soledad Sevilla retrospective, the Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger exhibition, the group exhibitions ‘Scene II. Latencies’ and the one dedicated to the world of fanzines are some of the proposals. Women are the focus of this summer’s exhibition programme at the Institut València d’Art Modern (IVAM). Highlights at the Valencian museum include a retrospective exploring the career of Soledad Sevilla, an exhibition on African-American artists Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger, the group exhibitions “Scene II. Latencies” and the one dedicated to the world of comics and fanzines, as well as interventions by Inma Femenía and Sofía Alemán.

The museum’s commitment to raising awareness of women is evident in temporary exhibitions such as ‘Soledad Sevilla. Rhythms, Plots, Variables’, a major exhibition that explores the entire career of Soledad Sevilla (Valencia, 1944), from her early days at the University of Madrid’s Computing Centre in the late 1960s to her most recent work, such as the series in which she pays tribute to Eusebio Sempere, a leading figure and friend.

Other women, the artists Senga Nengudi (Chicago, 1943) and Maren Hassinger (Los Angeles, 1947) occupy Gallery 4 of the IVAM with an exhibition that explores, through more than 30 works, the vital and artistic relationship of these two African-American creators in the territories of performance, installation and sculpture.

In line with the commitment to increasing the presence of women in exhibitions, the exhibition “Scene II. Latencies” brings together fifty works from the IVAM collection that span a century, from 1925 to the present. Among the women featured in this exhibition are Claude Cahun, Zanele Muholi, Diana Blok, Susana Solano, Olga Diego, Ana Penyas, and Ángeles Marco, among others.

The IVAM also hosts the exhibition “That’s Not a Comic! Fanzines: Avant-garde and Innovation in Comics in Spain” in its summer programme. This exhibition celebrates this ephemeral and transgressive cultural phenomenon and brings together a comprehensive selection of works from the last five years by more than forty authors from the world of fanzines.

These proposals are complemented by the intervention on the IVAM façade, “Aire Magenta,” by Valencian artist Inma Femenía (Pego, 1985). This installation proposes a play of light in the lobby, dyeing the museum’s stained-glass window magenta, reflecting off the surfaces of the interior architecture and the bodies of visitors.

Another woman joining the list is the creator Sofía Alemán (Tenerife, 1997). The artist has intervened in the Ignacio Pinazo exhibition at the IVAM’s Sala de la Muralla, through a photographic installation that, through image and display, approaches the concept of multitudes that Ignacio Pinazo addressed in his work.

In addition to the aforementioned exhibitions, the museum is also hosting an exhibition dedicated to the artist Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, bringing together a previously unseen series of graphic works that invite visitors to discover the paradoxes between our perception of reality and reality itself. Gallery 2 of the IVAM also hosts the permanent exhibition dedicated to the artist Julio González, featuring nearly 250 works from the museum’s collection.

Report by ‘24/7 Valencia’ team

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Photo ‘Soledad Sevilla © Miguel Lorenzo-IVAM’

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