Conversation between Mª Jesús Folch and Isabel Tejeda on Juana Francés, with a dialogue and presentation of the exhibition catalogue, held on 24 February 2024 at IVAM Cada Alcoi as part of the Juana y los rinocerontes sessions.
On the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the artist Juana Francés at IVAM Alcoi, and coinciding with the centenary of her birth, this conversation brought together art historian Isabel Tejeda and curator Mª Jesús Folch. The discussion focused on the artist’s figure and career from a gender perspective, aiming to explore the sociocultural constructions of her time and how they influenced her artistic activity.
Additionally, the catalogue associated with the exhibition was presented.
Isabel Tejeda Martín (Madrid, 1967) is Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Murcia, specializing in feminism, contemporary art, and museographic discourse. She was director of the Department of Art and Visual Communication Eusebio Sempere at the Diputación de Alicante in the early 1990s, and director of the Department of Visual Arts at Murcia Cultural (CARM), overseeing Espai AV and Sala de Veròniques from 1998 to 2010. She has curated nearly one hundred exhibitions in Spain, Puerto Rico, Argentina, the UK, Italy, France, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. Her awards include the Espais Prize for Art Criticism, finalist for the Art and Law Essay Prize (2005), the Anetta Nicoli Prize (UMH), and the Juana Francés – Precrea Prize from the Valencian Public Universities.
María Jesús Folch has been a curator at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) since 1996 and earned her PhD in Art History from the University of Valencia (2017) with a thesis entitled Women as Graphic Documents: An Approach to Female Photojournalism. In recent years, her work has focused on studying the IVAM collection, coordinating over 80 exhibitions and curating numerous others, including notable studies such as Body, Space and Time in Bruce Nauman (2015) and Ana Peters. Political Mythologies and Female Stereotypes in the Sixties (2015).
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