Based on a conception of art as a space of experience and freedom, not subjected to the categorisation of history, form or style, it has special interest in issues which have become important operative concepts in contemporary art and the present-day world, such as: energy vs. form, circular vs. linear conception of time, archaeology of knowledge, nomadism, migration – of forms, motives, ideas, people, goods –, individual and collective memory, hospitality, community, exchange, miscegenation, cultural anthropophagy, and utopia, among others.

At the CIAJG, we combine objects and images from very distant times and places, sometimes without any apparent connection, as if they came to us brought by the wind, as if they were flying seeds. We want to refound the museum as a place of wonder and reflection, as an air stream and mirror, as an infinite horizon. For this reason, we intermingle different languages and methodologies, from archaeology to ethnology, passing through the history of art. We try to blend dimensions that are often irreconcilable, such as the popular, ancestral, artisanal, vernacular, and knowledge that is transmitted orally or by gestures. We propose to cast a gaze from the time and place in which we find ourselves, regarding the wide array of tangible and intangible manifestations and vestiges of our culture. To return to visitors the space between objects, the pauses in which they can breathe. To show the air.