Acaymo S. Cuesta

We are conditioned by our environment, either at the family and social level, and especially at the political level.  History and experiences form/constitute a very important active part in the construction of the individual, since everything that surrounds us lends itself to become impulses that build or destroy it.

In this sense, I understand the configuration of the subject and the history as a container of irrational impulses provoked by external agents. I am inte-rested in the use of the word as a shaper of the individual, and how it can be used as a tool to control, indoctrinate, tame or distract him.

Under these premises, my work deals with the tensions between the in-dividual, society and the word; materialised through the development of pieces that combine multidisciplinary techniques and that ultimately seek to awaken a critical or reflective attitude in the spectator.

HERSTORY? The history of art has traditionally been told exclusively for men, generating a story where the story created by women had no place and a view of things that excludes half the population. Great creators, with an extraordinary corpus of artistic work, have been made invisible despite meeting the same parameters of success as world-renowned artists.

Since the 1970s, feminism and gender studies have been building a historiography that completes the missing half of the global narrative. This story is what is called Herstory. It tells the story of them -her- of the women who have been systematically neglected. The need to correct this democratic deficit is what leads to the creation of this piece, written history bends to send us a message in the form of a question.

DELETE. History bends to send us a message, that the truth be told, and that is that, as George Orwell said, "(this) is always written by the victors", which is an uncomfortable reality for power because it reveals one of the many ways to justify their hegemony.

 BIO Acaymo S. Cuesta (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands, 1983).

 Multidisciplinary artist Bachelor of Arts (BA)  of La Laguna University and a Master’s degree in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

He has exhibited his individual and collective work in spaces such as C.A.A.M. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands - Spain), SACO9 Contemporary Art Festival (Antofagasta - Chile), Nomad Biennial at the Anthropological Museum and Contemporary Art - M.A.A.C.(Guayaquil, Ecuador), Clamplight Gallery, (San Antonio - Texas - EE.UU), Fundación Francis Naranjo (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands/Spain),  Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània, (Valencia - Spain),  Fernando Pradilla Gallery (Madrid - Spain), IX SIART International Art Biennial (La Paz - Bo-livia), La Regenta Art Centre  (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands/Spain), S.A.C. Sala de Arte Contemporáneo (Tenerife - Canary Islands - Spain),  Blanca Soto Gallery (Madrid - España), No Lugar Gallery (Quito - Ecuador), Pérez de la Riva Cultural Centre (Madrid - Spain), One Project  in  Art Madrid’17  with La Isla Gallery (Madrid - Spain), TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Tenerife -Spain), Hardy Tree Gallery (London - U.K.), Espacio AB9 (Murcia - Spain) and Laboratorio21 (Viareggio - Italy) among others

 He has been awarded production grants and artistic residencies such as: Artistic Residency at I.S.L.A. Instituto Superior Latinoamericano de Arte (Antofagasta, Chile), financed by the Programme for the Internationalisa-tion of Spanish Culture (PICE) of Acción Cultural Española, grant in the Cé-sar Manrique Research and Artistic Creation Projects coordinated by the Government of the Canary Islands (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands/Spain), grant in Artists in Residence CAAM (Gran Canaria - Canary Islands/Spain), artist-in-residence grant at Residency.ch, PROGR Art Production Centre (Bern/Switzerland), VII Encontro de Artistas Novos (Santiago de Composte-la - Spain), Invited to an artistic residency at the Fate Festival (Naples - Italy), Artistic residency at No Lugar (Quito - Ecuador) and for two and a half years he received a grant from the Government of the Canary Islands as an artist in residence in studio 7 of the Espacio de Producción de Artes Visuales of La Regenta Art Centre (Gran Canaria - Canary Island - Spain).

His work can be found in the following collections, Antonio P. Martín Art Collection  (Gran Canaria - Canary Island - Spain), Ofelia Martín and Javier Núñez Collectión (Lanzarote - Canary Island - Spain), Museum and Contem-porary Art - M.A.A.C. (Guayaquil, Ecuador), Nomadic Cinema for the Arts Foundation (La Paz - Bolivia), Municipality of San Potito Sannitico (Naples - Italy), Canary Islands Foundation Luján Pérez (Sta Mª de Guia/ Spain), Peace one day Organization, (London, U.K.), Artistic Foundation of the U.L.P.G.C. C. (Gran Canaria - Canary Island - Spain) and private collections in Chile, Barcelona, Madrid, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Milan.