The Museum of Fine Arts presented the exhibition “20 Years of TELESUR: The Other View of Global News”

Published at: 29/07/2025 10:47 AM

This Monday, the Museum of Fine Arts (MBA) joined the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of TELESUR with the inauguration of the exhibition “20 Years of TELESUR: The Other Look at the Global News”, which offers an immersive experience that allows us to glimpse what a day on the television is like, while enjoying a remarkable selection of works of Latin American art.

The inauguration of the exhibition was accompanied by the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, who expressed his personal ties with TELESUR. “I am happy to have done my journalism work on this platform and now to share, from the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture, a facet of a communication experience that has a family air with this venue,” he said.

Villegas highlighted that “in this museum, the most important collection of Latin American art, and in some ways TELESUR too, is a view to the south that has been traced from the arts and communication”.

At the same time, he indicated that the television station represents “a look at ourselves, at what we are, at our identity”, and that both the MBA and the television station will be fundamental in the future history of Latin American cultural identity and the global south.

“Faced with these retrograde supremacist tendencies, here we have TELESUR with its 20 years of identity and those creators who for decades and until the end of time will be clamoring for our identity,” said Villegas, who described TELESUR as “a sign that if it didn't exist, we would have to invent it because it has allowed an alternative narrative to emerge, dissident from the imperialist, capitalist, westernist, warrior and Zionist communication cartel”, expressed the highest authority of Culture.

For her part, president of TELESUR, Patricia Villegas, expressed her gratitude and creative effort to conceive this celebration. “We wanted to share with the general public a little bit of the experience of being inside TELESUR. These wonderful Latin American works can be enjoyed, they are the prelude to the TELESUR experience. They can immerse themselves in that Latin American and Caribbean multimedia that today is the heritage of the peoples of the south,” he explained.

The exhibition presents the selection of works entitled “Back to the South”, a work by researcher Carmen Figuera, which will be available to the public for a limited time. As an outstanding novelty, and for the first time in the MBA, an interactive television studio has been installed so that attendees, from art students to the general public, can experience the television experience up close.

MINCULTURA/Mazo News Team