The Canary Museum organizes a cycle of guided tours to Francesca Phillips' exhibition "The Search for Ancient Faces", which will take place on 6, 13 and 27 February and 13 March 2019. These visits will be led by Francesca Phillips herself, responsible for this visual proposal that combines art with science thanks to the collaboration of the Facelab laboratory of John Moores University in Liverpool.F
or the first of these visits, scheduled for February 6 at 17:00 h., priority will be given by the members of The Canary Museum, who will be able to attend with an escort if they wish. Partners who are interested in this activity must send a confirmation email to difusion@elmuseocanario.com, indicating their name and, where applicable, that of their companion. For the rest of the visits, which will be repeated every Wednesday at the same time, it is not necessary to register in advance. Admission is free and free until capacity is complet
ed." The Search for Ancient Faces" draws attention to the connection between the ancient canaries and today's islanders. To this end, he confronts the portraits of 50 current inhabitants of the islands with many other facial reconstructions of Aboriginal people of the archipelago, made for the occasion by María Castañeyra-Ruiz and Caroline Wilkinson, of the aforementioned British university. Fr
ancesca Phillips, born in the United Kingdom, resides on horseback between London and Gran Canaria. Trained as a photographer in such important centres as the Centre for Creative Imaging in Kodak (Maine, USA) or the Royal College of Art in London, where she was a visiting professor, she has published her graphic work in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Daily Telegraph. In his work"White Monks", on The Trappist Monasteries, developed between 2007 and 2010.As a filmmake
r, Francesca Phillips has also placed her work in an anthropological context, as seen in her documentary on the gomero whistle "Written in the Wind" (2008), for which she was commissioned by Al-Jazeera. That same anthropological interest is the one underlying "The Search for Ancestral Faces", an exhibition that was inaugurated in El Museo Canario on December 13, 2018 within the framework of the II Congress of Museums of the Canary Islands and which will remain open to the public until March 30, 2019.