La romería de los cornudos (The Pilgrimage of the Cuckolds)
La romería de los cornudos is a visual research project based on the ballet of the same name by García Lorca and Rivas Cherif (1933) that seeks to carry out an unorthodox reading of the Rocío pilgrimage and the environment of Doñana through the use of video, dance, music and the creation of costumes, all from a hydro-feminist perspective that focuses on the use of the territory.
La romería de los cornudos was the prelude to Yerma, a key work by the author in which fertility is undoubtedly the central theme, which is even reflected in the landscape. The setting in this case is the Doñana National Park and the tourist, industrial and agricultural areas surrounding it. In short, the project is an update of history, focusing on the uses of the territory and also the productive and reproductive dynamics of the agents passing through it. If Lorca is the poet of water, here the dew, the marsh, the river and the sea will serve as strands to address the socioeconomic, environmental and spiritual problems faced by the characters in relation to the ecosystem in which they fit. The overexploitation of natural resources is mixed with the exploitation of labour, rites of passage, religious worship and, above all, the construction of some forms of production directly linked to violence and extractivism at all levels.
María Alcaide
María Alcaide graduated in Fine Arts from the Universidad de Sevilla, completed a Licence d’Arts Plastiques from the University of Paris 8 and a Master in Art and Design Research from Eina UAB. She was awarded the Generation 2021 prize and a ”la Caixa” Foundation production grant in 2020, among others, and has exhibited at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Cité des Arts and Villa Belleville in Paris, as well as Can Felipa, LOOP Barcelona, Fabra i Coats, Matadero and Centro Conde Duque. She has held research residencies at MACBA in Barcelona, EHESS in Paris, UDK in Berlin, C3A in Córdoba and in Western Sahara, among others.