MARIA DEL CARMEN DIEZ

MARÍA DEL CARMEN DÍEZ - Look how cute

Técnica: Hollow linear

Biografía del Artista: She received a scholarship as an artistic engraver from the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre in Madrid. Her latest scholarships include the Fine Arts Scholarship of the Province of Valladolid, the Bólit Centre d´Art Contemporani and Ema Contemporary Engraving Residency in Girona, and a Scholarship for artists from the Castilla y León Artist Book Fair, among others. He has received several awards, including the Carmen Arozena International Graphic Art Award, the José Caballero Engraving Competition, the EAC Awards, and the Open Portfolio Award at the FIG Bilbao International Engraving Fair.

Visual artist within the field of contemporary graphic work, specializing in engraving and multiple printing techniques. Her work addresses gender issues, questions about the future of women and their normalized representation obtained by a current patriarchal heritage. Both in her artistic works and gender research, she proposes an approach to the creation of graphic media as a communicative element that has acted directly in the reproduction, propagation and inheritance of the cultural process that extended certain physiognomic and psychological characteristics of the female gender through prints. This piece, belonging to "A Efectos del ayer y del hoy", is made up of six engravings that present a series of compositions in which women are shown transformed into animals, which are in turn represented under titles derived from popular sayings, where phrases are formulated that use the meaning of animals as pejorative adjectives towards women, creating a situation of dialectical confrontation between popular language and the animal symbol. These female triads dismantle the use of the feminine, highlighting certain archetypes, both visual and lexical, imposed on women from a society that we understand to be past but which we continue to use as a reference.