Sandra Gamarra "All the better to see with, my child"

THE BLACK PILLAR
Presents
“All the better to see with, my child” (2010)
by Sandra Gamarra

Wednesday 23th june 2010. 21:00 PM
at Polyester
Travesía de San Mateo, 10
Madrid


“All the better to see with, my child” set out, literally what this piece is about, a semantic mirror game. In the way from appropriationism to give another meaning used by the artist, her installations and paintings always try to catch new elements in which they achieve the deactivation and reactivation of the representation codes. Her installations rarely refers to reality as well as to the interpretation process, relocation and reasignation that an image exerts on that reality. Subverting the original through paintings (in this case, the reflection from several surveillance mirrors; previously, from art catalogs to newspapers photographies or even representative spaces like museums and galleries) the artist reveals how the image works as a significant mediator between a fact and his political, cultural, social, emotional and exact interpretation.When reproducing parts of a mediated reality, Gamarra alerts us to the use and meaning of this mediation, and how finally the world is a construction of lies that has to be revealed, a code which interpretation is only possible if it is deactivated through a double link: making us see the differences and similarities between shown reality and the parts that this way of showing tries to underline, hide or replace.


Sandra Gamarra (Lima, 1972), studied Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Perú and at Universidad de Cuenca. Her work, normally painting installations, had been shown at different Biennials such as Venice or São Paulo, and museums like La Nación (Lima), MOMA, MUSAC, MEIAC, MAM or the National Gallery in South Africa. Many time awarded and granted such as Marcelino Botín creation grant. She lives and works in Madrid. She is represented by Juana de Aizpuru Gallery (Spain) (www.juanadeaizpuru.com), Leme Gallery (Brasil) (www.galerialeme.com) and Lucía de la Puente Gallery (Perú) (www.gluciadelapuente.com).