Mahlerca Gallery
Carmen Alvar (ES)
“Many childhood memories are built from family stories, photographs, objects…In this sense, the truthfulness is only partial and we resort to those moments to go back to a happy past. When flying the kite, the tangled memory makes us return to the person with whom we played for the first time and we place ourselves in an invented landscape.”
When the photographs fall into the hands of an artist interested in cutting out the people, the remains that last are landscape backgrounds. The construction of a new stage in Portable landscapes is made from those snapshots that, as sometimes happens with memory, are built from different fragments.
Carmen Alvar is an artist interested in giving second lives to things, which leads her to research the limits and possibilities of images. Her work has been shown in several collective and solo exhibitions.
