Olalla G. Valdericeda

Olalla Gómez Valdericeda develops artistic proposals with conceptual roots, converting the tools of the contemporary art tradition into instruments of social criticism, either against any modality of identity fixation or to talk about the very condition of the artists and their relations with the art institution.

“The engine of my work is the day to day. I have a firm commitment to the present moment and a critical position from which to address social and political issues from a very human dimension. I develop artistic proposals of a conceptual nature, converting the tools of the contemporary art tradition into instruments of social criticism against any form of identity fixation, composing poetic transformations that transmit dissenting messages about the ideologies that surround us in this late-capitalism that we have lived through.”

Common Horizon Essay. 2019 The phrase no man's land, with all its semantic and historical complexity, is reread by Olalla Gómez as one of the many failed concepts of Western thought. The logic of recognizing our world as the property of no one, but the heritage of all, is opposed by the current geopolitics of the border, erected under the discourses of possession of the territory and fear of the other.

In this direction, the artist explores the need to alter the perverse game of appropriations and distances that are hidden behind neoliberal norms. -Carlos Delgado Mayordomo-

GO LABEL. 2017 Thousands of cultural labels they are imposed from birth, forcing us to behave and think of women and men in simplified and classified ways, thus marking gender differences and establishing strong prejudices. But if everything is a construction, there is the possibility of deconstructing, disorganizing or resemantizing these labels in order to reflect on how they have configured us and how we socially configure the others. We can therefore begin to build ourselves, think about ourselves and tell ourselves from personally chosen places.

Freedom. 2019 The difficulty of enunciating a "we" without overpowering alterity forms the core of the artist's current poetics. This is shown, in an especially revealing way, in a work made with neon tubes with which he writes «Freedom is dependent or it is not». A phrase that, in the simplicity of its syntax and in the categorical nature of its assertion, has the urgency of those street graffiti that are born from an honest awareness.

The phrase is a response to the topic that the degrees of freedom are measured in terms of the satisfaction of individual desires; a displacement that distances us from gestures of self-sufficiency and that, rather than testing a readjustment of the concept of freedom, will encourage a change of perspective: the impossibility of being a body alien to the links that place us among others. -Carlos Delgado Mayordomo-

BIO

Olalla Gómez Valdericeda (España, 1982)

Whether using sculpture, video, photography, installation, intervention or performance, the work of Olalla Gómez Valdericeda (Madrid, 1982), Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master in Art, Creation and Research from the Complutense University of Madrid , has life in the city as its main object of study. From this point of view, she critically and poetically influences various social issues, distorting their meanings and giving rise to new dissident approaches.

Her work has been shown in galleries, festivals, and international artistic residencies, as well as Museo Universidad de Navarra, Centro Juan Salazar, Paraguay( 2019), galería Antonia Puyo. Zaragoza( 2019), galería Astarté Madrid( 2015), galería Moises Pérez de Albeniz.Madrid.( 2013)

She is the recipient of numerous distinctions such as Mardel Award Finalist( 2021) ,Acquisition award extraordinary commission. Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo CA2M ( 2020) Workshop Identidades. Espacio Laberinto. El Salvador(2017), beca residencia Just Mad, Premio el rócense, MUA Universidad de Alicante; Pilar Citoler; UCM Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Ayto La Rioja, Scholarship EAN Argentina, Córdoba, Argentina ( 2016), Honorable Mention OCEMX Photography Award, México(2012),among others.

Her work is part of numerous public collections, including: CA2M Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo; MUA Universidad de Alicante; Pilar Citoler; UCM Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Ayto La Rioja.