Gloria Oyarzabal exhibition at RocioSantaCruz gallery

‘Woman Go No'gree’

Empires, by their very nature, embody and institutionalize difference, both between metropolis/colony and between colonized subjects. The “Scramble of Africa” (1880-1914), based on a deplorable and fierce imperial competition for the need for raw materials, on the exploration of the world and science on the back of a nascent rationalism, and on an ethnocentrism that hierarchized races on the basis of a supremacist ideology, justified the occupation and exploitation of an imperialism that brought light to the darkness that reigned on the African continent, under the pretext of bringing the 3 C's: commerce, Christianity and civilization. Paternalistic excuses paved the way for the prevalence of today's dependency, reinforcing the degrading scale of classification according to evolution, Social Darwinism.

Gloria Oyarzabal Exhibition