Studio Banana interviews Carmen Cantón, one of the most peculiar Spanish women-artists.
She is the author of an already 15-year-long project entitled Ego Art Centre, 1994 – 2009. It consists of an exhibition space installed in a white chest of drawers, 270 x 77 x 46 cm. Its original purpose was changed when it was designated a Museum by Pelayo Varela, Carmen Cantón was the museum director, in charge of the curatorship of the first exhibition in 1995. The guiding principles of this centre consisted of flexibility, lightness, travelling and experimentation. Unlike more conventional museum models Ego opted for multiplicity and portability, inhabiting a private intimate space and, finally, becoming a commodity. Its travels have taken it to the Venice Biennale, the Küppersmühle Sammlung Grothe Museum in Duisburg, Germany, Museum of Contemporany Art Sofia in Caracas Venezuela, and other locations in Latin America: Mexico D.F., Oaxaca, Argentina, Santo Domingo, Paraguay, Peru. The interventions on the centre, based on dialogue among the various agents, are documented in the art magazine The Route of the Senses.
