Carmela Garcia

CARMELA GARCÍA (Arrecife, Las Palmas, 1964).
"Girls at the door". Series Girls, desires and fiction, 2000.
C-print on plasticized aluminum. P/A copy.
It has a fold in the lower right area.
It has a Juana de Aizpuru Gallery label on the back.
Measurements: 122 x 150 cm.
The artist's website describes this series as follows "The girls take over the public space and show the private, eroticized and sexualized. Lesbians visible in the public space.Madrid".
Carmela García (Arrecife, Las Palmas, September 16, 1964) is a Spanish photographer whose work focuses on the need to rethink the way history has been constructed. Her approach seeks to rewrite the stories that have shaped the collective imaginary, approaching them from a gender perspective and revising both their form and their iconic content. Her images explore the feminine universe, paying special attention to lesbian relationships. Her compositions portray scenarios where the male gaze is absent, leaving women as the sole protagonists of the idealized worlds she creates in her work.
Trained in London and in photography in Barcelona, since her beginnings she has integrated literary, plastic and audiovisual references in her narrative work, combining them with a critical social gaze.
Her work has been exhibited in important spaces such as the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Espacio Uno) in Madrid, the Centro de Fotografía de Coímbra, the MUSAC in León, the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Gran Canaria, the IVAM in Valencia, and in international exhibitions such as El real viaje Real / The Real Royal Tryp at PS1 of the MOMA in New York, curated by Harald Szeemann. He has also participated in exhibitions at the MOT in Kanazawa (Japan), the University of Salamanca and the European House of Photography in Paris, among other prominent venues.
In the field of galleries, he has shown his work at Juana de Aizpuru (Seville and Madrid) and in 2003 at the Altamira Gallery in Gijón. Together with the Juana de Aizpuru gallery, he has been present at important international fairs such as ARCO Madrid, Art Basel, Paris Photo and Frieze London.
In 2010, Televisión Española dedicated a monographic program to him in Metrópolis. In 2012, he participated in Open Studio at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.