Greta Alfaro
dal 27/9/2012 al 27/10/2012
Segnalato da
27/9/2012
Greta Alfaro
Fish and Coal Building, London
A Very Crafty and Tricky Contrivance. The exhibition features a series of site-specific video and installation works by Genesis RCA Photography Scholar.
The Genesis Foundation will present the first solo exhibition in the UK of new works by Genesis RCA Photography Scholar Greta Alfaro. The exhibition called A Very Crafty and Tricky Contrivance, will run from Friday 28 September to Wednesday 24 October 2012 in the Fish and Coal Building, Regent’s Canal, Goodsway, NW1.
Curated by Flora Fairbairn, the exhibition will show a series of site-specific video and installation works at the Fish & Coal Building, an abandoned semi-derelict Grade II listed building on the Regent Canal in King’s Cross. Rats, human and animal bones and a disused railway are elements playing a part in this exhibition.
Greta Alfaro works mainly in video, photography and installation. Her work deals with images from our cultural imagery, and is based on the intangible heritage that stays with us from our past. She refers to tradition, art history, tales and religion, updating its themes and relating them to today’s concerns.
In 2011 Greta graduated with distinction with a Masters in Photography from the Royal College of Art, where she was the first beneficiary of the Genesis Photography Scholarship. The exhibition is the culmination of the Foundation’s ongoing support of the artist.
John Studzinski, Chairman and Founder of the Genesis Foundation says:
“Greta is undoubtedly one of the most talented young artists working in England. Her work is original, striking, provocative, witty and often profound. Such a combination is rare and so I’m delighted that the Genesis Foundation is continuing its support for Greta by presenting her first solo show.”
The exhibition will reflect the artist’s acute interest in the contrast between the ideals and rules of society, frequently imposed by the means of the image, and the actual private identity of the individual – hidden, without images.
Greta Alfaro says:
“I am excited to be creating new work to be exhibited at the evocative Fish and Coal building in collaboration with curator Flora Fairbairn. The Genesis Foundation is offering me a wonderful opportunity in producing my first solo show in London, which it is both a challenge and a dream.”
Flora Fairbairn, curator of the exhibition says:
“I was thrilled to be invited by the Genesis Foundation to curate this exhibition. I am a huge admirer of Greta’s work and was excited to find the Fish and Coal building in which to present it as it is so full of character and perfectly suited to her work.”
Greta Alfaro was born in 1977 in Pamplona in Spain. She studied Fine Art at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art in London in 2011. Alfaro has exhibited individually at Invención, curated by Andrea Paasch, Museum Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México City (2012); ELOGIO DE LA BESTIA. CENTRO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO HUARTE, Pamplona, Spain (2010), and In Ictu Oculi, curated by Antonia Gaeta, Carpe Diem Art & Research, Lisbon, Portugal (2009). Group shows include Whitechapel Open at the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2012); Bêtes off at La Conciergerie in Paris, (2011); Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 at the ICA London; Drama, Baby, Drama at Kunsthaus Essen, Germany, (2012), and Inanimate Beings, Inéditos at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, (2011). Her video work has also been screened at the Rencontres Internationales at the Pompidou in Paris (2010) and at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2011). In 2011 she received the CAM art prize, Spain.
Image: Greta Alfaro, A Very Tricky and Crafty Contrivance, 2012. B/W photography (fragment of the work), 65 x 125 cm.
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