Denise Labraga
Denise Labraga, Puerto Madryn (Argentina) 1986
Period of residence: May 2014
Throughout her work, Denise Labraga tries to inquire about the skills that each individual unfolds in the journey into the emotional world. She wonders what we do with the pain, how we learn to inhabit, live with and develop strategies to overcome it. She persistently seeks to understand how, from the depths of emotions, we generate the relationship with “the other”. Denise is powerfully attracted by the idea of establishing a dialogue between personal and collective aspects, the circularity in relationships and their mutual influence, that is the relational features in specific contexts.
Denise studied Photography (Motivarte Institute), Social Communication (University of Buenos Aires – UBA) and obtained a diploma in Photographic Documentary Research and Conservation (University of Buenos Aires – UBA).
Since 2010 she attends the works analysis laboratory conducted by the visual artist Ananké Asseff and also trained in the history of photography and preventive conservation. Since 2008 is dedicated to the research and is part of the photographic collective f: Image and Word.
During her residence at Hangar she developed At Ground Level, a collaborative project of emotional cartography about Barcelona: www.alrasdelsuelo.com.ar
She has been resident artist in Le Couvent d’Auzits in 2013 and has participated in individual and collective exhibitions (selection): Biennial of Young Art in Buenos Aires (Centro Cultural Konex, Buenos Aires, 2013), Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales (Palais de Glace, 2013) Disclosure of Looks (Arte x Arte Gallery, 2013), Habit of Hiding (Le Couvent d’Auzits, 2013), Views (Grete Stern Photogallery, Universidad de Tres de Febrero, 2011).
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