CAN YOU LOVE ME EVEN THOUGH...? Art Exhibition
  • CAN YOU LOVE ME EVEN THOUGH...?
    Photography Exhibition
  • Si de jugar con fuego lo que te gusta es quemarte, entonces vuelve de nuevo.
HOTEL ROOM

Privacy, the right to the private space,
a space that each one of us chooses
and, therefore, identifies us, has become anonymity in our mass society.
The anonymity E. Hopper shows to us. The anonymity of a face with no profile, of a lonely scattering figure in the middle of urban scenarios of abandoned gas stations or hotel rooms. We have transfered the city to the traveler,
the person who walks by places of ephemeral or lasting transit. And in such a never-ending movement, identity has been consigned to oblivion.

Bearing this loss of identity in mind, under the supremacy of canons that bomb us from advertisements everywhere telling us about the "perfect lady", the reflection on the gap that the feminine dichotomy of Eros and Thanatos represents is totally relevant.

This fight between two poles leads the following photographies. Starting from non-places, hotel rooms, where privacy, loneliness and anonymity meet, a search of the lost identity is offered, by means of scenes built up as "tableaux vivants", where images are simulacra of life.

The protagonist, unable to create a real bound either with spaces or with people, believes this simulacrum is the only way she can think of to meet again with herself...
CAN YOU LOVE ME EVEN THOUGH...?

Sonsoles Lozano, by then editor and chief editor of Scartissue magazine, acted as a curator and organized a meeting with a small group of artists from different disciplines. In this meeting she asked us to create an ad hoc work for an exhibition that took place in Berlin some time later. The topic: "Can you love me even though....?" My answer: "If getting burned is your favorite part of playing with fire, then come back".
Fields
Photography, Fine Arts
Date
2011