Last Friday, November 7, at 6:00 pm, we welcomed at Il Posto Documentos Lia Colombiano, Director of the Museo del Barro (Asuncion, Paraguay), who talked to us about her book «Este museo no es un museo.»

Este museo no es un museo

The book Este museo no es un museo tells the story of the Museo del Barro and its background, which dates back to more than 50 years of creation work, institution of cultural spaces and development of thought on symbolic production in Paraguay. Based on a sustained work of archival immersion, together with testimonies and the author’s experiences in the proximity of the museum project, the book also seeks to answer to whom the institution is owed and in what way it becomes a space for the celebration of difference.

About the author

Lia Colombino was born in Asuncion, in 1974. She holds a master’s degree in Museology from the University of Valladolid. She was part of the seminars Identidades en Tránsito and Estudios de Crítica Cultural del Seminario Espacio/Crítica (2001-2008). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Arts at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes de Buenos Aires (in agreement with the Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina). She is director of the Museo de Arte Indígena del CAV/Museo del Barro since 2008, and coordinator of the Seminario Espacio/Crítica, from 2009 to 2017. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Red Conceptualismos del Sur. She is co-founder of Ediciones de la Ura, a transdisciplinary collective. She coordinates Abrapalabra-Writing Workshop since 2000 as well as Tragaluz/Espacio Transversal, where workshops, courses and meetings are held. Currently and since 2018, she holds the position of director at the Instituto Superior de Arte «Dra. Olga Blinder» of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Art of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. She has curated exhibitions, coordinated art and literature projects. She has written for the media and specialized publications, and has given lectures and conferences both in Paraguay and abroad.