Cristina Ortega
Bio
Cristina Ortega, graduated in Fine Arts from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid. Master in Script Creation at The Core School of Madrid and Master in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture in collaboration with the Complutense University of Madrid and the Reina Sofia Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid.
Young emerging Spanish artist who, at the age of 23, has obtained the first grant for visual artists promoted by the Martín Chirino Foundation of Gran Canaria. Winner of the XI Exhibition of Young Artists "Placido Fleitas" in the call for the year 2022. She will soon be exhibiting at the "Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas" in El Retiro Park in Madrid. After finishing the commented execution she will professionally visit the Venice Biennale with a grant from the Martín Chirino Foundation.
Cristina has focused all her creative work in textile and installation art where she has used all kinds of artistic disciplines such as photography, painting and cyanotype. She works on different formats, all of them textile, carrying out a great research work on the entire artistic career of Martín Chirino.
Statement
The reason for the places.
I feel an attraction for the spaces resulting from the action of inhabiting, those that "empty" show the trace of who was there. I explore and record the unconscious acts that determine us as a generation, as well as the consequences of transit in the environment.
Emigration, roots, memory, identity and time, analyzed under the behavior of the liquid society, are the themes constantly present in this research. The meaning of my work is its own process. The result of this, more than to signify, is used to dialogue with oneself in the place of installation.
