GOYA BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Goya's Caprichos and drawings are full of petimetres, girls and old women exhibiting themselves or looking at themselves in the mirror. In our time, this place of personal exhibition is no longer the malls, but Instagram. In Cecilia de Val's "selfies", the image is degraded, diluted, as in all the images that the artist has been handling, who more than a manipulator of them, is a witness to their immolation, inviting us to accompany her to see how the photos slip from her hands, or rather from her sight. A "crisis" of the image, an image of the crisis of these times, says Cecilia de Val, with a parallel, two hundred and twenty years ago, in a crisis that was perhaps even greater than ours, when the images of power unmasked themselves, and in a collective suicide, were transferred to that deposit of detritus that is the museum. Goya, however, will be the artist who continues to make the museum uncomfortable.