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Aida Valdes

21 June 2021 – 31 July 2021

Aida Valdés is an Asturian plastic artist. She begins her training at the Oviedo Art School. Currently, she is studying a degree in Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Bilbao. Both places have contributed to her formation, both artistic and human, giving her the opportunity to participate in various calls and group exhibitions. Among which, it is worth highlighting: “400 years with Cervantes” (2017) in the Historical Building of the University of Oviedo or the “IX Carlton Hotel Certamen” (2019) In addition to “Inhibition” (2020) in ZAWP, La Terminal , Bilbao. Her work, mainly pictorial, delves into the mostly abstract representation generated through photography, both her own and archival. With a central interest in the representation of place and landscape.

Project in residence

Avilés-Bilbao

In this project, an artistic investigation will be carried out based on pictorial experimentation through the analysis of two urban centers: Avilés and Bilbao.

It is about investigating painting from photographic images, whether my own or from archives, of what is closest to me, of fragments linked to these two places between which I move and try to locate myself. Build a bridge between these two places, a third place, one with different rules.

I start from a feedback between various elements of plastic and visual expression, thus generating a relationship between photography, the use of maps and documents or the virtual representation of these places on platforms such as Google Maps. All this to provide the painting with a certain symbology inherent to the colors and shapes themselves. Highlighting the transformations generated by industrialization, first and industrial reconversion later. The images I work with have something of a found object, and so does the result.

A starting point, a formal resource that situates me and helps me think about concepts that interest me. Respond to a pictorial search about what surrounds me, raise a series of questions around the idea of ​​place, space and time.

Selected project from the 1st Call for Artistic Residencies 2021


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