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Updated Wednesday, February 7, 2024-15:47

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The

director of the

Reina Sofía Museum

,

Manuel Segade

, believes that

decolonization is "an unavoidable topic"

and that it is part of "the genetics of contemporary art" and has announced that the museum will reopen a series of rooms in its permanent collection dedicated to this issue.

The reopening will be before ARCO. The project in this section is titled "Device 92: can history be rewinded?" and will be located in the rooms on the 0th floor of the Sabatini building.

These rooms were inaugurated by the previous director,

Manuel Borja-Villel

, on the occasion of the last review of the center's collection in 2021 but had to be closed due to a technical problem with its opening license, Segade said.

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The rooms, whose story addresses

colonial control and "the harmful effects" of imperialism

in recent decades, have pieces such as cayucos made by the Zapatista organization EZLN and others donated by Latin American collectors.

The reopening of these rooms "is

an absolute coincidence" with the current minister's announcement

to "review" the collections of the national museums. The Minister of Culture,

Ernest Urtasun

, and Segade have spoken about these issues, according to the museum director.

"Museums do not become

feminist

, nor with interest in racial or gender issues, from one day to the next or because there is a political agenda that is of interest," said Segade. But contemporary art itself emerged at the end of the 60s, linked to these new thoughts, he explained.