Noemí Iglesias Barrios
Bio
Noemi Iglesias (Asturias 1987), an artist who defines herself by working with sculptural media and long-term performative formats, is a clear example of contemporary nomadism: since 2009 Noemi has lived and worked in Greece, England, Finland, Italy and Hungary.
In 2019 he received a Master's degree in Porcelain from the Tainan National University of the Arts where she studied contemporary ceramic practices thanks to the ROC Taiwan Scholarship from the Taiwanese Government.
Recently, she has been awarded by the Fundación Unicaja de Artesanía Award and her work has been seen at the iMAL Center for Digital Culture and Technologies in Brussels, the Gimhae Clayarch Museum in Korea, the Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, and the Antón Museum. Sculpture of Candás. He has also been part of the Faenza 2020 Prize, CERCO Contemporary Ceramics, the International Ceramics Contest of l'Alcora and the El Vendrell ceramics biennial, receiving the XXXIII Villa de Avilés Ceramics Prize with his work "Isolation".
She recently presented "Summer Boyfriend Wanted" at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, within a cycle of performance curated by Semíramis González.
Noemi is currently pursuing a doctorate in the sculpture department of the Lisbon University of Fine Arts thanks to a scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
Statement
The ceramic floral production technique is an industrial process that was carried out entirely by women throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in European ceramic factories.
In a hierarchically patriarchal framework, such as the industrial environment, the presence of women has always been a clear example of labor segregation that translated into lower wages and therefore an economic dependence of women to male workers. Due to the difficulty and the time it takes to make each of the flowers, it is a technique that has practically disappeared.
In Noemi´s work, she uses this traditional floral production technique to represent the current commodification of falling in love and how emotional patterns are socially assumed as icons of consumption in the production of a romantic utopia where sentimental experiences are presented through products manufactured by industries. specific, transforming emotional patterns into consumerist strategies.
