Martta García Ramo
In a world as visual as today, a world to "see and be seen", Martta García Ramo wants to reflect on what we see and what we do not see, what we believe we see and what we really see. Most of the time it is not our eyes that see if it is not our mind. Martta proposes to the viewer the task of educating the look. The look as power and the work of art as a possibility to show it, to question our way of seeing, to question our ways of reacting to the world. In her artistic process she tries to create images that ask to be examined.
The Spanish artist walks the cities, and takes photographs that she then uses to develop her work, an important part of it is based on the framing of the work, on the description of all her characters, on the stories they tell us ... The zebra steps, they allow her to delimit those characters and make the invisible visible. She dives into the crowd, a crowd that attracts her, paralyzes her, moves her, surprises her, drags her, agitates her…