Soledad Córdoba

Còrdova Soledad

Soledad Córdoba (Avilés, 1977), artist and PhD in Fine Arts from Universidad Complutense of Madrid. His training and artistic research has been supported through grants and stays resident in Paris (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris), London (Tate Britain, The Hyman Kreitman Research Centre), Madrid (Casa de Velázquez) and Barcelona (Hangar, Centre of produció d’arts visuals i multimédia). His artistic career is endorsed by several awards of Photography and Visual Arts is worth noting among others, the first prize of Photography The Cultural of El Mundo, the first prize of Plastic Arts of the University Complutense Foundation, the Plastic Arts Contest UNED and the Young Artists Competition of the City of Madrid.

His work is present in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally among which, the Cervantes Institute of Chicago, Albuquerque, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Tetouan, Fez, Rabat and White House, the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC (USA), Niemeyer Center (Aviles), Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias (Oviedo), Barjola Museum (Gijón), Laboral Art and Industrial Creation (Gijon), Fundació Espais d’Art Contemporary of Girona, the Sala Kubo Kutxaespacio art (Donostia), the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (Madrid), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Espacio Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid); He has participated in international festivals such as PhotoEspaña looks Women 2013 or the White Night in Madrid and international contemporary art fairs such as ARCO, Art Lisbon, FotoFever Paris, MadridFoto, Estampa, SAWB Art Fair, Art Santander. It also has the presence of work in prestigious collections of public and private institutions.

“I’m interested in photography as a means to transmit and represent new realities and as a tool to throw questions about the existence of human beings.

With my work I explore the territories of confusion where the borders of reality and fiction, the comprehensible and the supernatural, the beautiful and sinister, the familiar and the strange. I am also concerned the relationship we have with the elements of nature and appreciate the fantastic as a way to transcend our being.

Therefore I represent places where everything is possible, real landscapes that encourage the creation of new realities or places that invite reflection within our daily reality.

All my work is centered on the idea of transcending reality through the poetic image with denuded photographs of its particularity, places, scenes and characters (self-portraits) misappropriated any objective definition but turned into signs, nodes and links a universe that emerges from reality and merges with the imaginary, poetic and evocative. My work runs close to the dream states, with a clear intention to create visual poetry where beauty, silence, pain, fear, isolation and search are present.”