Memoria

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TECHNICAL DATA

Author: Carmela García (Lanzarote, 1964)
Title: Memoria (Memory)
Year: 2008
Technique: siliconised C-Print photograph
Size: 180 x 220 cm
Edition: 3/5

Work belonging to the “I want to be” project by Carmela García, which the Canary Island artist created between 2006 and 2008 in different media and formats and later exhibited in several monographic exhibitions. The piece was acquired in the set of acquisitions made by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation in Madrid’s 2011 International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO).

The series of portraits “I want to be” is based on emphatic scenes, with individual and collective planes, playing with the idea of representing characters inspired by history that take as a starting point the portraits produced by artists like Berenice Abbott, inspired by women and updating the space, morphology and thematic background of each piece. It is a metafiction, conceived from documentary materials, icons and references where the symbolic space becomes of great interest. The conjugation of these concerns has become customary in Carmela García’s career, questioning or challenging feminist registers and liberation movements, which translates through an intelligent visual discourse that relates them to history. Past versus present, establishing an interesting visual intersection between the possibilities of constructing the image and of the female identity through careful fictions and social relations.