Laura Fjäder
14 February 2022 – 30 April 2022
Laura Fjäder (Asturies, 1973) is a feminist writer and researcher who graduated in Social Work. She has focused the practice of this discipline on gender counseling and the management of community cultural initiatives.
She develops the Dissident Muses project which, from poetics, feminism, visual and performing arts, seeks to generate non-normative artistic discourses. The Menstruosity and EllaFeroz capsules belong to this project, which are presented to the public at the Muyeres Fest (Oviedo, 2017), Museo Barjola (Gijón, 2018) and Gala Elles (Teatro Palacio Valdés, Avilés, 2018).
She is a regular contributor to current affairs publications, radio and cultural magazines. For more than a decade she has participated in ephemeral creative spaces and coordinates the feminist poetry event Lobulo y Sentido.
He has published the collections of poems Will Scarlet was no god (2016), Nudo de venas (2018), both in
Suburbia Ediciones, and The Perfect Insects (Ed. Torremozas, 2019).
In 2020 he completed a residency at Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial during which he developed the hybrid piece Lugares Anfibios. It is presented within the Noche Blanca program (Plat0 Laboral Centro de Arte, September 2020) and is part of the Art in Residence 2020 exhibition.
She currently focuses her research work on transcultural spaces of affective ecology, the taboo associated with women’s bodies in old age and their representation in arts and literature.
Project in residence
El efecto apotropaico
“Memory is a form of architecture.” Louise Bourgeois.
EL EFECTO APOTROPAICO.
In this genealogical memory -visual, textual and sound-, the researcher uses qualitative ethnographic methodologies that approach specific dimensions of the private and public sphere, highlighting oral testimonies and archival material. Through the recording of life stories and biographical accounts of the Herrero branch (the author’s mother), materials from the visual archive owned by the family, as well as other public and private sources, it aims to safeguard the cultural and symbolic heritage of these women from the beginning of the 20th century to the present – from María Concepción Argentina to her great-granddaughter, whom she never met. The documentary purpose will serve not only to preserve these memories but to analyze the impact of the contributions and work of women (inside and outside the private space), their relationship with the changing industrial/urban landscape of the Nalón Basin (Sotrondio and El Entrego) and the sociocultural environment and the construction of neighborhood sisterhood networks……
Wherever you go you will be The First but not in El Sueño. In El Sueño the important thing is the photos, keeping the memory safe. Place the photos, the memory, in a safe dry place behind the cement wall, which will not let water pass through, that will endure the force
by The Wave. The wall will resist, you are sure, and that is why the photo albums are stacked in boxes behind it, that is why you have risked your life: to go look for them despite the danger, to save the memory.
…Knot of veins. Laura Fjäder. Suburbia Ediciones, Bad Lands Collection, 2018
Project selected in the I Call for Artistic Residencies 2022
