Marina Vargas
08 Feb - 18 Mar 2024
"I would venture to say that Anonymous, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman". This phrase from the essay "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf gives title to the first exhibition of Marina Vargas (Granada, 1980) at Fernando Pradilla Gallery, presenting a recent and unpublished work with which the artist vindicates the silenced women of history.
As opposed to the anonymous women of history denounced by Woolf, here the anonymous women are the protagonists. In a meticulous work, with multiple allusions to different interests of the artist, we find an exhibition where we recognize the best Marina Vargas, where the symbolic and the ritual trace a conceptual journey full of denunciation and visibility of women, of breaking the silence and a global voice, embodied in a healing force and, above all, feminist.
Semíramis González
Curator of the exhibition
Marina Vargas
Luba mask for healing rituals, 2023
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Fang Nigil Mask, 2023
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Body mask or Makonde, 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Guère Mask or of men who forgive easily, 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Mbagani. Circumcision mask., 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Makonde body mask, 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Kwele Mask, 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Makonde body mask., 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Igbo Shaman Mask, 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Pende Mask, 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
Marina Vargas
Clairvoyance Mask, 2024
African mask, mixed media on wood and digital photography printed on hahnemühle paper framed in museum glass 50x50cm.
