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Eulàlia Valldosera

Eulàlia Valldosera is one of Catalonia’s leading contemporary multimedia artists. She combines the use of photography, video, drawing, performance and installation to create spaces where the spectator is encouraged to partake physically in the reconstruction of her actions. She was awarded the Premi Nacional d’Arts Visuals in 2000 and her work has been shown in major art galleries and museums, including, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 2000), the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2009) and Carroll/Fletcher (London, 2012).

Selected work: El melic del món / The World’s Navel (Installation 1991-2001); Cremades / Burns (Photographs, 1990-91); Embenantges / Bandages (Performance, 1992); Aparences / Appearances (Photographs, 1992-94); Prestatges per a un labavo d’hospital / Shelf for a Hospital Bathroom (Installation, 1992); La cuina / The Kitchen (Installation, 1992); Love’s Sweeter than Wine: Tres estates en una relació / Three Stages in a Relationship (Installation, 1993-94); El menjador: La figura de la mare / The Dining Room: The Figure of the Mother (Installation, 1994-95); Loop (Performance,1995); Envasos: el culte a la mare / Vessels: The Cult to the Mother (1996); La caiguda / The Fall (Installation, 1996); Habitació / The Room (Installation, 1996); El període / The Period (1996-2006); Twilight Zone (Site-specific Installation, 1997); Relationships (Installation, 1997); Entrevistant objectes / Interviewing Objects (1997-2008); Objectes migrants / Migrant Objects (2001-2008); Les demoiselles de Valence (Installation, 1999); Provisional Living (Installation, 1999); Interviewing Objects (1997-2008); Provisional Home (Installation, 1999); Still Life (Installation, 1999); Devoció retratada / Devotion portrayed (1997); Objectes generats / Generated Objects (2008); Envasos esborrats / Erased Containers (2008); Ampolles / Bottles (2008); Dependències – Carros / Dependences – Trolleys (2008)
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source: museoreinasofiaes

Eulalia Valldosera’s (Vilafranca del Penedes, 1963) career, its inceptions in the late eighties. Her work is characterised by installations and actions that project light where her intention is not to create an object to be observed, but to interact with the spectator.

Dependences, the new work that gives its name to and articulates the exhibition, is a monumental piece with which the audience interacts with supermarket trolleys containing video projectors. With it the artist takes up the theme of filming devices and staging, promoting tactile, auditory and playful aspects. The title refers on one hand to the body’s dependencies where life unfolds and to their “primitive stages”: motherhood, sex, love or disease. In turn it refers to the emotional dependency of certain mechanisms that construct and define our way of looking and acting.

Valldosera studies in Barcelona and then moves to Holland where she begins to create work with a conceptual style related to the body and self-representation, while she investigates the formal aspects of artwork and its balance between the material and the immaterial. The artist places her work fleeing the spatial norms that minimalism imposed on the distribution of subjects, objects and space during the early sixties and creates a whole group of works entitled Appearances, which use light as a fundamental element, combining packaging and cleaning products through simple projections. Sequentiality and light are elements which allow us, the spectator, to establish a language through shadows and talk about our private environment, using poor materials and simple meanings. The result is embodied in installations that provoke a magical effect on the spectator who immerses themself until finding the link between the objects and perceiving another dimension to the piece.
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source: helgadealvear

La obra de la artista Eulàlia Valldosera abarca fotografías, vídeos, performances, esculturas, instalaciones y proyecciones de luz con los cuales a menudo recrea unas escenificaciones dramatizadas que reflejan simultáneamente la presencia y la ausencia, la memoria y el deseo. Su obra, sumamente sugerente y formalmente de factura impecable, indaga sobre la identidad de la mujer como sujeto intelectual y se centra en nociones de identidad sexual, cotidianeidad, amor, enfermedad y maternidad. Entre numerosas exposiciones que ha realizado, destaca la muestra antológica que le dedicaron la Fundació Antoni Tàpies de Barcelona y el Witte de With Contemporary Art en Rotterdam, ambas en el 2000. Lugares de trabajo es ahora el título de la exposición que ahora presenta en la Galería Helga de Alvear.