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| NANA GALLARDO |
In the work of Naná
Gallardo the fragility of existence is a constant presence.
It underlines the here and now, as if the idea of the present
gave anchor to the possibility of negating time’s passing.
Through autobiographical references and the use of elements
with which she identifies, she creates scenes that invoke her
personality and her multiple layers, intertwining these in an
attempt at harmonization.
It does not appear to be her intention to capture ‘an
instant’ that converts a shot into something especially
scenographic, rather to discover a composition in the place
that it occupies time and again; herself once and a thousand
times, multiplied in herself and in each of the characters that
she adopts in her self-portraits. At times, nevertheless, she
herself hardly appears in the subtle and poetic planes of almost
complete abstraction and the settings are barely identifiable.
At present she is working on a series of self-portraits in which
she enters once again into the invisible elements of accumulated
memory, and into the representation of the body as a scenario
of pleasure and reflection but also of pain, always in an emphatically
aestheticised frame.
It is not simply about an accumulation of evocations, but rather
a search nourished by self-knowledge, in which she has had to
investigate the questions that populate her growth and formation.
In the acceptance and recognition of her personal limits, there
naturally appears a climate of profound sensuality, both explicit
and symbolic.
Patricia Rizzo
September 2007
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