Maria Garganté takes the floor on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Ara canto per a mi’ to present certain aspects of female sociability within the framework of the Roser brotherhoods and to relate the role of the mayorales in the embellishment of the material aspects of the brotherhood, such as the construction of altarpieces, frontals and basins. She will talk to us about the role of women in the brotherhoods and in their social expressions _the festival_ and the cultural subaltern nature of oral transmission in women.
Maria Garganté Llanes is a full professor of Art History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and at the Antoni Gaudí Faculty. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Amatller Institute of Hispanic Art, of the Espurnes Barroques Foundation and is an elected Academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. Her latest books are “Paisatge barroc: l’art a Catalunya dels segles 17th and 18th” and “Santificaràs les festes”, and she has curated the exhibition “Dones de paraula” at the Frederic Marès Museum.