24 February 2014 – 01 March 2014
Cristina Ferrández, a graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Castilla la Mancha, began her involvement in issues related to the regeneration of the territory and natural awareness through culture and art, during her PhD period at the Miguel Hernández University in Alicante. He has developed artistic projects within the framework of landscape and nature in different continents: Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Minnesota, USA; East Jerusalem-09 Arab Capital of Culture, Palestine; Territorios de Encuentro, Patagonia Argentina; Threshold of Time Symposium, Portland, England; Instantes de Paisaje’09 CDAN, Huesca, Spain. She has received grants from various institutions, including: Fondation IMéRA, Institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université in France, Art, Science and Society 2019 programme; the Creative Europe Grant THE SPUR / ETACEC 16-18 PROJECT, for projects in residence at the Centre d’Art Le LAIT in Albi, France; Cajastur 2011 grant, Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa 2006, Centro de Escultura Museo Antón de Candás 2010, Becas Al-Norte 2007 and the University of Castilla la Mancha at the Hochschule Für Grafik Und Buchkunst von Leipzig, Germany. His latest exhibition projects have taken place at the CMAE in Avilés 2019 with ‘Terra Incógnita’, at Puxagallery Madrid with the Opening 2018 project ‘Campos de Utopía’ and with ‘The Non Visible’ at the Centro de Arte de Alcobendas.
Project in residence
Cristina Ferrández will develop the Paso de Gigantes installation during a production residency at LABoral. This work will be the contribution of the Center for Art and Industrial Creation to the 2014 Miradas de Mujeres Festival.
Giants Pass(2013) refers us, as a visual cartography, to a predicted geography: enclaves linked to the transformations of the landscape due to large public works infrastructures in a state of suspension, and to singular buildings of cultural, scientific or social scope in abandonment, built or rehabilitated with public funds.
Cristina Ferrández works in the area of artistic creation as a critical and reflective process, developing visual projects that value the territory, raising reviews and questions towards our relationship and inhabiting the landscape.