Cristina Núñez: Someone to Love at H2O Gallery, Barcelona
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© Cristina Nuñez |
Someone To Love
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Info
Opening: Wed July 11th. 2012, at 8 p.m Presentation by Joan Fontcuberta From Jul 11th till Aug 10th 2012 Opening hours:
Mon to Fri, 4pm to 8 pm
Contact
galeria@h2o.es
Joaquim Ruiz Millet
+34 934151801
Address
http://www.h2o.es/
Galería H2O
C/ Verdi 152
08012 Barcelona
Spain
'Someone To Love' brings together for the first time the self-portraits taken by Cristina Nunez, enabling her to develop over 25 years her method The Self Portrait Experience ®, a process of inner exploration shared with the public. Nuñez believes that 'The separation between art and therapy is intolerable' and considers the method as the main part of her artwork.
Cristina Nuñez began taking photographic self-portraits in private in 1988 to overcome self-esteem issues that led her to drug addiction during her teenage years. This practice allowed her to shape her own emotions and to reveal her presence to the world. At the same time, through an uncompromising gaze on herself, she created a powerful instrument to project the plasticity of her identity. These images became a form of self-therapy through which Nuñez could gain access to her Higher Self.
'Someone to Love' (1988-2011) consists of 21 large photographs and over a hundred small format images, forming a sort of 'lifeline' on the walls of the gallery. The many portraits of the author are combined with some significant images of her ancestors and with the portraits she made of her family, investigating the relationships with them and among them, and showing a constant pursuit of her own roots and identity through the faces and bodies.
Two videos complete the exhibition: Someone to Love, a diaporama with the artist's voice narrating her story, and Higher Self, a presentation of her neo-humanist philosophy, her innovative approach and her vision of art as a powerful tool for social activism.
'Someone to Love' was inaugurated in September 2011 at the Centre des Arts Actuels Skol, as one of the 25 exhibitions of the Mois de la Photo de Montréal 2011, according to the theme proposed by curator Anne-Marie Ninacs: Lucidity. Inward Views. In Montreal, 'Someone to Love' had 2350 visitors. Subsequently, the exhibition moved to MS Gallery in Madrid.
H2O now exhibits the entire project for the first time in Barcelona.
The author whishes to thank the Consell Nacional de la Cultura i de les Arts for their generous support.
