Immaculate Salinas

Inmaculada Salinas - Job offer

Técnica: Color and paper ink penalty

Biografía del Artista: Inmaculada Salinas is a Spanish artist born in Seville in 1978, whose work focuses primarily on photography. Her style is characterized by the exploration of the relationship between the photographic image and reality, as well as by the use of light and color to create evocative and poetic images. Salinas has received several awards and recognitions throughout her career, including the Purificación García Photography Award in 2006, the Andalucía Joven de Artes Plásticas Award in 2007 and the Vila Casas Foundation Photography Award in 2018. In her work, Salinas uses photography as a tool to explore themes such as memory, identity and perception. In her images, she often plays with the relationship between the image and reality, creating images that seem to question the veracity of what we see. She is a prominent artist on the Spanish contemporary art scene, whose work focuses on the exploration of the relationship between the photographic image and reality, as well as by the use of light and color to create evocative and poetic images. His work has been recognized with numerous awards and has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.

For her part, INMACULADA SALINAS (Guadalcanal, Seville, 1967) proposes as a background for her proposal for ARCO the reflections on Monika Buch and Félix González-Torres, to whom the event is dedicated in this edition, both artistic and conceptual references for the artist. On this occasion, her works are seen elaborated under the connections that she has established with them during that time of work that means so much to her. Thus, dialoguing with the geometric, which is associated with concepts such as composition, balance or symmetry, Salinas' work introduces us once again to the world of the relational, of the poetic and visual without complexes, in the possibility of connection that all work carries in itself. Not everything is what it only seems. Under the firmness of her structural proposal, the clash, the confrontation, ambiguity and with it the relationship, relationships. In the face of measure, rhythm; in the face of the angular, the evanescent; in the face of precision, subtlety; in the face of the norm, simplicity. Fragile links that are strengthened by the reiteration that leaves furrows, that confronts the artist with his work, with the work of art, which, although paradoxical, is more real than the fictitiousness of the object. In her constancy, the artist continually hits us with her return to reality, to the reality of the artist. The struggles that her sentences return to us are not dispensable. This is my work, she affirms with this, and for this reason, she limits it, serializes it, reiterates it so that, definitively, it is not forgotten. So that we are aware that creative work is one more task and that for many, life and work are only the means and the tool to feel, to alert us that other worlds are possible.