Irene Trapote
1 September 2022 – 30 December 2022
He studies Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (2016-2020) and later studies the Master in Research in Art and Creation at the same university (2021). She has been particularly trained in the theory of spaces, ecology and feminism.
He works with and from the territory, as well as from the bodily experience, to address both material and symbolic issues. Their proposals tend to focus on territorial management, the present civilizational and ecosocial crisis, situated knowledge, knowledge of the environment and the search for autonomy, taking the rural environment as a place of action and from a critical position with the dynamics that have been given in contemporary times. Looking at the past and studying non-hegemonic narratives are vital for the construction of possible futures; to devise an alternative to the monopolizing management of the great metropolis.
Project in residence
Hacer territorio atando cabos
Hacer territorio atando cabos is a project initiated in the artistic research and experimentation residencies at the Centro de Interpretación de Arte do Mar “A Casa no Alto”, in Camelle (Coruña), and is currently in the process of development. It is based on the work of the redeiras as a construction agent of the landscape of the Costa da Morte. From the audiovisual and the soundscape, the project aims to highlight the interdependence between the work of these women, fishing and the landscape and identity of the place.
After making contact with the Asociación de Redeiras de Corme and recording their voices, their work space and their day, the artist attempts to relate this ancient activity, historically relegated to the home, with the landscape of the place itself. The main economic activity of this region, fishing, could not be developed without the work of the redeiras; the Costa da Morte would not exist without them.
For her stay at LABoral, the artist will continue to portray the territory and its fishing landscape, in this case the Asturian one, through the work of the rederas of the area. Perhaps in this way, a kind of collective landscape connected by the sea and by the traditional trade of these women will be sketched out. For how could the Asturian fishing identity and tradition survive without them?
