White Prendes

Blanca Prendes - Without title

Biografía del Artista: (Gijon, Asturias) Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca, she studied in Kassel and at the HFG Offenbach, Frankfurt, while developing part of her creative activity, which she continued in Badajoz and later in Asturias, where she has established her residence. She has been coordinator of the Association La voz de mi madre, in Badajoz; and in Asturias of the Graphic Design Conference Motiva. I have also participated in several collective exhibitions and public art projects. For several years she has been a professor at the School of Art in Oviedo. She is currently a Design professor at Esapa, the Higher School of Art of the Principality of Asturias. In 2017 she completed the Master's Degree in Integrated Advertising at the International University of La Rioja. Until February 2018, she was part of the Offmothers collective together with Susana Carro, Roxana Popelka, Eugenia Tejón, Gema Ramos, Natalia Pastor and Elena de la Puente, where they worked on themes of art and motherhood. She currently belongs to the Association of Women Artists, Blanco, Negro y Magenta BNM, based in Madrid, and to the Association of Women in the Visual Arts MAV. She is also part of Espacio Local, located in Gijón, and the Cultural Association Laboca, which manages it. STATEMENT My beginnings were based on informalist painting that moved between figuration and abstraction. In 2003, the work of the previous two years was burned. From that moment on, and out of sheer necessity, I experienced a great change. I no longer focused on a single technique, and above all, I left aside a very visceral and spontaneous way of working, giving greater importance to the design of the pieces and the conceptual development of the projects. Incendios this experience is portrayed. My research has been based on visual experiences that go beyond the traditional vision of the “picture-image”, taking into account the number of them that surround us daily and the economy of perception in today's society. I consider myself antidisciplinary, since this categorization does not correspond to my work. Over time I have reconciled myself again with purely pictorial languages, although I continue to explore new media and techniques. Through my projects, I explore the complexity of being a woman and a mother in a world that often undervalues ​​and subordinates our experiences. My artistic approach is based on the exploration and representation of the complex realities of the female experience in our society.

#quietwomen There is always talk of BRAVE WOMEN, DEMANDING WOMEN WHO MAKE THEIR IDEAS RESPECTED, STRONG WOMEN WHO DO NOT LET THEM BE SILENCED. With this hashtag I claim the right of women to be passive, weak, cowardly and whatever they want without losing their freedoms and rights. We always think of women who must defend themselves because if you don't, it seems like you deserve whatever bad things happen to you. White Prendes