Ámame como soy

Group exhibition at Casa de América featuring works by 26 Ibero-American creators living in Spain, curated by René Francisco Rodríguez, whose title comes from a song by Pablo Milanés.

Casa de América presents a group exhibition in its Galería Casa de América-ABANCA featuring works by 26 creators from various Ibero-American countries who currently live and work in Spain. Organised together with AECID within the framework of the XXX Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, the show brings together paintings, photographs, installations and other contemporary formats.

The curator, the Cuban artist René Francisco Rodríguez, has designed a route in which the works combine each creator’s memory of their origins with their life in Madrid and other Spanish cities. The ensemble does not seek to fix a closed identity but to show how different cultural traditions meet and how the sense of belonging takes shape in those who develop their work here.

The title, Ámame como soy, comes from a song by Pablo Milanés, and the exhibition is conceived as a tribute to the Cuban singer-songwriter. The institution has a particular bond with him: after his death in Madrid, the Palacio de Linares, the institution’s headquarters, hosted his lying-in-state.