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| The exhibition, curated by Professor Tatiana Abellán, has had the participation of students from the Master in Artistic Production and Management of the Faculty of Fine Arts | The University of Murcia opens this Friday, May 15, the virtual exhibition Golem19, which will take place at 18:00 at www.golem19.com. The exhibition, which focuses on the myth of the Golem and its reverberations, has had the participation of students from the Master in Artistic Production and Management of the Fine Arts faculty. As Professor Tatiana Abellán, curator of the exhibition, explains, "the Golem is a mythological creature with full reasoning capacity and great physical strength, but who cannot communicate verbally.

However, its body, made of clay, is animated starting with the word.

Its parallelism with the myth of the creation of Adam described in Genesis is evident.

However, the Golem is a human invention, just like Frankenstein.

These monsters, which were initially harmless - like other homunculi, automata, humanoids, or robots - end up becoming a danger to the community.

That is probably the punishment that is hidden in man's desire to equalize God, the only creator, if we pay attention to prerational teaching.

" All these issues are developed and expanded by the artists of Golem19 through different media such as photography, video, illustration, collage or digital painting, in a careful virtual exhibition that is articulated from different headings that have creation, the word, intimacy, fear, the political or isolation as backbone elements. Just in the incubation period of the exhibition project, the state of alarm was declared.

Obviously, the emergence of Covid-19 went through all the previous inquiries of the working group and was incorporated as a necessary additional reflection.

"Golem19 is a transcript of contemporary western society, but also a dystopian speculation, a criticism of the increase in state power and physical limitations; an urgent reflection on the consequences of confinement, in short, which nevertheless has its roots in myths foundational of our culture, because we cannot forget that, as Luis Alberto de Cuenca pointed out, myth is not reality, but it can never be considered fiction, "concludes Tatiana Abellán.

Source: Universidad de Murcia