CÓMO HACER DE ESTE PANTANO UN JARDÍN
Romina Carrea
CÓMO HACER DE ESTE PANTANO UN JARDÍN
Artist
Romina Carrea
“As a child, I played often and well. I remember one of my favorite games was losing myself in the endless closets of my home, searching for objects from other times. My mother was a great collector of things; I became an archaeologist of memories. And so, the pleasures of my private world became the material of my creation.”
“How to Turn This Swamp Into a Garden” is an exercise in memory, a journey woven through fragments that have survived the past—reminiscences of another life that resurface here and now to (re)signify existence in the present. Untangling the threads of memory means delving into the distant to interrogate what has come before, engaging in dialogue with the past to restore loss through the present. Photography, as a process of bringing images of remembrance to the surface, lays before us glimpses of a distant subjectivity—inviting us to inhabit it.
STATEMENT
I work from intuition, weaving my art from myself, from my own substance. I see the visual arts not as separate disciplines but as a whole, which is why different techniques and influences coexist in my work. “How to Turn This Swamp Into a Garden” was born from my perception of the color pink and takes form in the artist’s book—a medium that not only brings together multiple expressive methods and extends my ongoing dialogue with the visual arts but also serves as a space from which to (de)construct and unfold my own narrative.
I place myself within the legacy and ideals of 19th-century Romanticism, close to the serene perception of the Victorian era. My images invite the viewer to explore beauty, to search for meaning in form, to discover both strength and fragility through a feminine imaginary where stereotypes and conventions consume the real woman. Veiled by tradition, she emerges as the essence of my iconographic world. The elements composing “How to Turn This Swamp Into a Garden” allow me to speak of her, to speak of myself—of the mother-daughter relationship, of what remains and what is forgotten, of what shapes us and undoes us before the world, of what defines me.
I conceive images as gateways into my world, as trajectories that enable transformation, but also as objects belonging to an intimate universe—substances that reside in my memories, containers of moments torn from time.
INFORMATION/WORK
Títle “Como hacer de este Pantano un Jardín”
Artist
Romina Carrea
Curator Lusy Incera
Purpose
Translating the concept of the artist’s book into physical space, embracing the visual arts as a unified whole.
EXHIBITION JOURNEY
The exhibition path of “How to Turn This Swamp Into a Garden” unfolds throughout the space, where images and objects come together in a temporal sequence, inviting the viewer to read its narrative. The audience moves through a space shaped by the omnipresent idea of the work as a whole—an indivisible entity. This is why the photographs are not accompanied by captions or additional information that might interfere with the viewer’s relationship with the image. The work claims the space, and in turn, the space becomes part of the work itself, generating a new environment where the viewer is not just an observer but an integral part of the experience.
Video/ Images
Pictures of the show
EXHIBITION IMAGES
Place
C. C. Pati Llimona, Sala Ruïnas
BCN, España 2024
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VISUAL IDENTITY & COMMS
Images
Promotion and communication
Logo
Vector drawing
Event invites
Opening, artist-led tour, closure
WORKS
The exhibition consists of sixteen images, three objects, a video, and two texts.
Images
11 photographs a 30X40 cm.
2 photographs a 40X60 cm.
1 * 1 large-scale photograph (2x1.3 m) covering a section of the wall
2 iarchival images: “Shadow I” (10x13 cm) and “Shadow II” “Shadow II” 9X6 cm.
Objects:
1 butterfly wing in a frame: 10X17 cm.
1 bouquet: 9X4 cm.
1 display case: 40X25 cm.
Video:
Still-image video with sound.
The scent of perfume invades the car
I wearing a pale pink dress and my feet still don´t reach the floor
My mom is sitting next to me, looking though the window A row of colored lights illuminates the night.
The woman in the passenger seat lowers the sun visor and looking at herself in the mirror, touches up her red lipstick. We stop. We´ve arrived at the theather that looks like a palace.
“Here is my shadow, which has led me to know my fate.”
25/01/1955
TECHNIQUES
Manipulated Silver Gelatin Photography: analog images digitally intervened to alter their chromatic essence, placing pink at the heart of the composition.
TECHNIQUES
Vernacular Photography:
Domestic images from family archives that, in the present, echo the past.
Object Scanning:
A hyper-detailed, perspective-free image where the object loses its tridimensionality, existing in a liminal space between imagination and reality.
TECHNIQUES
Gum Bichromate Printing:
A positive image printed on cotton paper using a solution of gum arabic and pigment. The paper is exposed to light with a negative, then developed, revealing an image in the color of the chosen pigment.
Transfer:
An image transferred from one surface
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