The border of shadows
At this edition of PHoto ESPAÑA 2023 we present the most recent works by Ofelia García (Madrid, 1951) that are part of the series that this Madrid-born creator began during a period of lockdown. Since then, the artist has been looking for lights, shadows, and reflections in the corners, nooks, and other shapes of her house, and she has taken hundreds of photos where results are very similar to her previous photos, with hardly any subsequent editing on them. For almost two years, in an almost obsessive way, she manages to take around 2,200 takes.
These photographs are complemented by a couple of sets of schematic drawings made on different supports: reused envelopes from the correspondence of all kinds that she herself has received during this period and also cardboard. A set of different schematic lines reproduce freehand the lines, angles and shapes that she herself finds in the rooms of her home, in an exercise in synthesis.
Once again Ofelia García shows us with great mastery that painting and photography do not have to be at odds, but that in addition to complementing each other, both can be great allies.
Madrid artist Ofelia García began painting at a young age, inspired by souvenir photographs of her father's travels. She works mainly with photographic supports to which she adds paint glazes, delving into autobiographical issues, and reflecting on time, memory and recollection.In her artistic career we find both these paintings on photographs and purely photographic abstract pieces made with digital media, and without any painted content, in which the different zones of light-twilight-darkness are given the task of symbolizing the visible world. About her work, she says: "I try to order what I see into a simpler universe"... Read more
