CARMEN ARRABAL

Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain),
Lives & works in Paris (France)
Very active in: 90s, 2000s, Current decade

Representative galleries:
Lina Davidov

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Video Art Works

Penelope Psycho (2006)
Mer de Larmes (2007)
Divino Tormento (2007)
Incontinencia (2007)
In-Communication (2006)
Engloutie_ Central Video (2006)
Engloutie_ Lateral Video I (2006)
Engloutie_ Lateral Video II (2006)

Artist of Spanish origin, lives and works in Paris since 1995. She uses diverse processes and media: photograph, video, installations, the web... She is an experimental, autodidact, productive and polyvalent artist: she poses for, films and edits her own videos. Her work is a reflection of a complex universe of contradictions expressed through contemporary icons. Carmen's most recent works, both video and photography, are an introspection into the universe of impulses and emotions; more intimate than her precedent socially oriented works. In her pictorial vision of the emotional structure, multiple layers of images superimpose themselves in a metaphor of the complexity of thought. The artist uses her own body with added elements like fire, water, the subway, people. The amalgam of images brings to mind the confusing terrain of feelings: passion, pain, desire...

Shows

  • INDOMITABLE WOMEN
    A (his)tory of audiovisual contemporary art made by women (1944-2009)