LateRooms.com - Discover The Cespedes Case in Seville

    SEVILLE, SPAIN, July 21, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A new art exhibition entitled The Cespedes Case has been unveiled in Seville's Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo (CAAC).

Accommodation Seville guests who attend this intriguing display will be taken on a journey by Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller to rediscover the history of Elena de Cespedes, who lived in 16th century Granada.

She was a slave and was eventually tried by the Spanish Inquisition for dressing up as a man and marrying a woman.

This unusual situation is looked at by the curators with one foot planted firmly in modern values, with the organisers noting that this is conventionally not the right way to investigate periods of history.

They explained that such a method can distort the meaning of certain events, but in this case it allows the viewer to imagine the very modern search for identity that Cespedes undertook.

Cabello and Carceller utilise masculine and feminine icons from cinema - such as characters from Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up - to delve into this question of sexuality and identity.

The organisers also quote a comment by photographer and writer Diane Arbus: "It's irrational that one can alter many circumstances and that one cannot alter many others. But if you're born as one thing, you can dare to be ten thousand other things."

For more information on this event visit the CAAC website or contact the venue on (+34) 955 03 70 70.

Tickets to visit the exhibition cost EUR1.80 (GBP1.50), with the art space opening between 10:00 and 21:00 local time from Tuesday to Friday, from 11:00 to 21:00 on Saturday and 10:00 until 15:00

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