Eulalia Valldosera (1963) is a leading Spanish artist based in Barcelona. Much before being recognized in her native country, she participated in numerous Biennales around the globe that took place during the mid and late 90s and later on. Through a dynamic practice that interweaves photography, performance, installation and video, Valldosera creates her unique language by means of projected light on everyday objects, thus recreating the inner collective scenarios of our psyche in an elusive theatrical portrayal of female identity, placing her body as a measure and reference of all experience.
- The World’s Navel
The central piece is a carpet-like floor covered with cigarette butts and ash, forming in each of its versions – in a total of 3-, different parts of a woman’s torso.
The series of photographs shows distinct points of view, as well as moments of the construction and subsequent sweeping (deconstruction) of this ephemeral work.
These new visions are complementary to the image of the floor, like various images within the same image.
The process culminates in the sweeping of the floor with a broom which, like a brush, sketches the form of the torso once again with the residues. The action is been filmed, to be shown alongside the pieces described above. The last stage is the fixation of these remains on the carpet.
In the end, the central body of this work has disappeared in the process.
2. Blood ties
3. Cult to the Mother
Time out of Time: 