Inma Femenia

Inma Femenía - On air

Técnica: UV impression on PVC

Biografía del Artista: Graduated in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València in 2008. Official Master's Degree in Artistic Production from the UPV, 2009-2010. During these years she was awarded several prizes. In 2013 she moved to Berlin to continue her research and begin to explore the relationship between art and industry, returning to Valencia two years later, in 2015. In 2017, she was nominated for The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize in Porto and won the Senyera 2017 Visual Arts Award in Valencia. Her work has been exhibited internationally in England, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Colombia and Alabama, among others. Highlights of the exhibitions include: Free Fall at IVAM (Valencia, Spain 2017); Live Today. Tomorrow Will Cost More at Praz-Delavallade (Paris, France 2017); Tensión at Centro Párraga (Murcia, Spain 2016); One Size Fits All at The Ryder Projects (London, UK 2016); Rugged Terrain at Beta Pictoris Gallery (Birmingham, Alabama, US 2016); Bête Noire at Musart (Berlin, Germany 2016) and Offene Atieliers at Atelierhaus Dachauer (Munich, Germany 2015). In the last two years, Inma Femenía's work has been acquired by various institutions such as the DKV collection, the Per Amor a l'Art Foundation (Bombas Gens) and the Generalitat. Valenciana.

The installation entitled On Air consists of a series of colour-printed PVC sheets suspended from the ceiling as a labyrinth in the main gallery room. These prints are the result of the appropriation of heat maps from Meteosat satellites that define points where climate change has had a devastating impact. These captures are oversized to achieve an abstraction where colour, and therefore light, is the protagonist, thus turning a devastated landscape into a sublime one. On a second level of analysis, Femenía challenges us to reflect on the origin of the satellite images that constantly monitor us. In addition to the limitation of our privacy, it also opens a discussion on the levels of pollution from human technological development that impact environments beyond the Earth's surface.