Utopian Authoresses

The book Utopian Authoresses covers the work of the Canarian artist Carmela Garcia from the 1990s to her most recent production, made at the end of 2020. In this volume, co-published with the regional government of Madrid, her videos and photographs focus on the female world, appealing to the need to reconstruct the imaginary collective and review the story of the story from a gender perspective. The images of her works are accompanied by texts by Margarita de Aizpuru, Heide Brown, Sandra Gamarra and a conversation between the artist and Tolo Canellas. AUTHOR: Carmela Garcia was born in Lanzarote, 1964. Her work focuses on the need for a feminist approach to history. Since its inception, it has combined its social interests in narrative photography through literary, plastic and audiovisual references. She has exhibited at the Reina Sofia Museum, the Musac or the IVAM among other large national spaces and at the PS1, Contemporary Art Center of the MoMA in New York, the MOT Kanazawa in Japan or the Maison de la Photographie in Paris. 202 images