GABRIELA FERNANDEZ MADERO
Bio
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1960.
Graduated in Visual Arts and Ceramics at the Escuela de Arte Nº1 "G. Chertudi". Teacher at Escuela de Arte Nº1 SADA. In 2021 and 2022 she is doing the Specialization in Contemporary Graphic Ceramics at UNA.
Her artistic practice develops from a poetics based on the Argentine identity, her own cultural identity that brings together two worlds, the original and the immigrant in the complexity of the present.
His production tries to express this fusion in the search for the ancestral relationship of man with his environment, the memory of his origins, the journey through his personal path, trying to answer the questions of our time, establishing bridges between the remote past and the possible future, passing through the present.
The mixed and expanded medium allows him to combine different disciplines, bringing together photography, engraving, ceramics, developing experimentation, emphasizing the handmade and alternative.
Since 2004, he has participated in salons, galleries, museums, fairs, and individual and collective residencies in the country and abroad.
She is part of the art collective "Atria" together with Laura Cardoner and Carolina Gutierrez. Her recent works have been exhibited:
- Centro Cultural Borges: LAS ALAS DE HYPNOS, 2017.
- Impact 10 (Santander, Spain): SINESTESIA NATURAL, 2018
- OdA: THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE, 2019
- Exhibition Mini Print Cantabria Collection at the Castillo Faro de Castro Urdiales in Spain, 2023
Lives and works in San Antonio de Areco in Argentina.
Statement
MEMORY AND ARCHIVE
Our goal is the search for a visual journey in which narratives involving an encounter with intimate and unique spaces are created.
Our latest project is an investigation into the archive, the family album and memory.
Every act of memory is a reinvention. It is hard to recall memories as something tangible; oblivion and blurred details are unavoidable.
The power of the image is to understand that it not only unites, but also creates, transforms and recreates our memory, making the invisible visible and evoking memories while fictionalizing the past.
We try to address the issue of memory and oblivion and this allows us to reflect on family, relationships, home and women's roles.
We start out with photography to then delve into other disciplines such as engraving, collage, alternative techniques and ceramics, resulting in a variety of artwork displayed in different media.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
