The november 30, 2024 the exhibition opens to the public  Women of their word , curated by Maria Garganté, art historian, professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Ateneu Universitari Sant Pacià (AUSP), which the visitor can find in the  Room 28 on Floor 1 of the Frederic Marès Museum.

The aim of the exhibition is to claim the use of the word from a female universe , starting from the modern era (16th to 18th centuries) and with specific dialogues with the contemporaneity . This thesis and others women who "took the floor" are the protagonists : the writing of Saint Teresa of Jesus, the transmission of the word and the knowledge of Saint Anne to Mary, the Immaculate as a symbol of wisdom, the concealment and denial of the word exemplified in the figure of Mary Magdalene and the mediation of the word in the mouth of the sibyls.

The word has been the key element to tell the story and also a fundamental instrument for describing and understanding reality, traditionally under male control . With very few exceptions, it has been men who have ruled empires and states and exercised control over the narrative; it is men who appear in history books, in most administrative documents or who have written and prescribed great literature. However, it is from the mother from whom we learn the language and the word that allows us to communicate, interpret and that is an instrument of mediation. 

The word of women - claimed, transmitted, hidden, denied... - is the common thread of the three areas that make up the exhibition : Virtue or vice: read and write in feminine; From Santa Anna to Mary: transmission and knowledge; and The word denied, hidden, questioned.

Women of their word highlights the need to draw up a genealogy of authors who become references and authority; to vindicate the importance of the maternal symbolic order and make visible the concealment and discredit that the feminine word has suffered from history, literature and biblical or mythological stories. Take "not to lose" the word.

Consult the activities around the exhibition Women of their word.