Presentation of the short film "Incandescent Women Artists", written and directed by Mairea Seguí Buenaventura.
"INCANDESCENT WOMEN ARTISTS" is an audiovisual work of artistic research, where the aim is to deepen and connect the stories and experiences of some contemporary women artists, related to digitalization, new technologies and other areas of knowledge. In its poetic and narrative form, it approaches the video art technique, reflecting on the impact their works have had. It concludes with proposals for the future of art, documenting their vision of the world and whether art empowers people, whether it drives social movements, and what experiences move the artists.
It focuses especially on those spaces of collective creation and artistic experimentation related to women and art. Because in some way, they served to showcase the avant-garde scene and promote artistic alternatives through computing, the combination of apparently unrelated disciplines (architecture, music, psychology, poetry, mathematics...) and their influence on later artists.
The research concludes by bringing together proposals and perspectives on possible utopias of digital art. A topic that will be addressed in an artistic and poetic manner, through the works and stories compiled from interviews about this collective artistic movement. Prominence is given to the artists and their perception of the process experienced, framed in a specific sociopolitical context. Relating the different artistic manifestations and their importance, both historical, personal, social and cultural. The audiovisual assembly will be composed, in part, of images of the artists' works, previously recorded, to be projected and recorded again in installations and everyday spaces relevant to them and imagined.
The structure of the script is formed in 3 blocks of related themes: Pioneers; Personal-social-cultural influence; Impulses-futures or utopias in art.
The qualitative and exploratory research method proposes as its thesis the influence of art as a process that seeks rarity, wonder and the peculiar to transform a set of particular perspectives into a framework of collective thinking where we rediscover the history and the mark left by these women.
A project designed, directed, produced, and starring mainly Spanish women artists who are part of culture as creators and mediators at the same time, survivors through art at a time in Spain when it was unthinkable that this could happen.
The purpose of the documentary is not so much to serve as a tribute but to propose other ways of approaching the history of the artistic experimentation movement to bring them to the present, incorporating questions related to identity, memory, authenticity, transformation and the future of art.
Artists collaborating in the project
Concha Jerez
She is a multidisciplinary Spanish artist and pioneer since the 1960s in conceptual art, installation, performance and video art. Her work of worldwide projection has been exhibited in Mexico, Germany, Denmark as well as in the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. This year she starred in ARCO in the stand of the newspaper "El País".
Esther Ferrer
Spanish artist pioneer of performance from the mid-1960s, individually or as part of the ZAJ group, created by W. Marchetti, Ramon Barce and J. Hidalgo. As performances, she has participated in Festivals in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, England, Holland, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Palestine, etc. She has exhibited at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, at the Galerie Satelite in Paris, Statsgalerie, Stuttgart (Germany), etc.
Yolanda Domínguez
Spanish visual artist, photographer and activist. She develops themes of feminist awareness and social criticism related to gender, consumption and art as a tool for social intervention. She has given lectures at the UAM, UCM, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, UPV, Ministry of Culture of Argentina, Frontiers Design Sweden, University of New Mexico USA, Parsons Paris, University of Communication Perugia and University of Mannheim, Germany. TEDxMadrid, Caixaforum, Fundación Telefónica, Emakunde, Museo Picasso Málaga, San Sebastián Advertising Festival, Etnosur and Red Cross. She collaborates weekly with El HuffPost Spain and on the radio program Efecto Doppler on Rn3. She carries out awareness campaigns for government organizations such as The Government of Cantabria, The Government of Asturias, The City Council of Soria and The Canary Islands Institute for Equality.
Sonia Megías
Spanish composer and multidisciplinary artist, choir director, performer of various instruments, educator. She has performed her compositions in places such as Cervantes Institutes, Cultural Centers of the AECID around the world, American Space Madrid, Teatro Real de Madrid, Centro Dramático Nacional, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Juilliard School in New York, theaters and museums in El Salvador (Central America). Since 2017, she works as a resident composer for the Madrid Choral Federation, and since 2018, for the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Ana Buenaventura
Spanish sociologist and artist pioneer in the Research and Analysis of automated processes at the Computing Center of the Complutense University of Madrid where since the 1970s she has developed her work and participated in seminars, conferences and exhibitions such as: Architecture, Art and Computer in Seville and Córdoba, International Congress on Automation and Art in Madrid, International Congress at the Institute of Research in Computer Science and Automation (I.R.I.A) in Paris, etc. She participates in collective exhibitions: VI Youth Biennial of Paris, "Computable Forms", CCUM in Madrid, IBM Exhibition, Congress and Exhibition Palace of Madrid, "Art and Computers", German Institute, Madrid, "Encounters: Architecture and Painting", Pamplona, "Art of SPACE ERA", Huntsville, United States, THEO Brandão Gallery, Maceió, Alagoas (Brazil). Her pieces have been acquired by the Museo de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Móstoles and the FRAC Centre Val de Loire, Orleans (France). Feminist video collectives in France. During the 1970s, Delphine Seyrig formed together with Carole Roussopoulos, Ioana Wieder and Nadja Ringart the collective Les Insoumuses to produce video works that accompanied their activism within the Women's Liberation Movement.
Co-founders of the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center in Paris, France.
Shirin Salehi.
Shirin Salehi, Iranian artist and multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, engraving, installation and video. Work recognized through artistic residencies and awards, highlighting the scholarship from the Academy of Spain in Rome (2020), the Casa de la Velázquez (2014), 1st prize for artist book Ankaria Foundation (2015), special award Combat Prize (Livorno, 2015), Pilar Banús award in the National Engraving Awards of the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving (2014) and 1st prize at FIG Bilbao (2012). Fundación Miró Mallorca in 2021 exhibition of her co-authorship project, A Fixed Point to Orient Oneself, with Spanish artist Inma Herrera after both received the Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby's Biennial Award for Creation 2019. Recently she has been nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award in Norway.
Inma Herrera.
Spanish multidisciplinary artist. Scholarship recipient from the Royal Mint to train as a Specialist in Graphic Printing Media and Artistic Design and Minting. Currently active and residing in Helsinki, Finland, where she is pursuing an MFA in Printmaking at Kuvataideakatemia, University of the Arts, thanks to one of the Postgraduate Scholarships in Europe 2014 from the Social Work of la Caixa. Recently awarded a Taideapuraha City of Helsinki Art Grant. She stands out as an Honorable Mention for the Young UCM Award 2011; finalist for Art 40 Spain 2012, FIG GRAPHIA in Bilbao 2013 and Miniprint Finland 2014. She has exhibited individually in Helsinki, Spain, and Stockholm.
Capi Corrales Rodrigáñez
She is a Spanish mathematician dedicated to research and teaching. Throughout her career she has made a large number of publications, from articles in specialized journals to collaborations in collective works and her own books. Part of her research explores the relationship between mathematics and art, focusing on the work of Elena Asins.
Jose Rubio Mira.
She is a Spanish painter. She has held exhibitions in the United States, Mexico and in various Spanish galleries. She is part of the group of partners of the Círculo de Bellas Artes where they have been holding ephemeral collective exhibitions for several years.
Vera Chaves Barcellos
Brazilian photographer and multidisciplinary artist. Of worldwide projection, dedicated to the dissemination of Contemporary Art, organizing various exhibitions with several publications. Co-founder of Nervo Óptico, a group of artists active in Porto Alegre between 1976 and 1978. She managed the influential exhibition space Espaço NO, with 8 female artists and promoted alternative formats, such as mail art, performance, dance-theater and installation. Since 1980 she has created multimedia installations, manipulated photography, computerized images, objects, videos and animation. Exhibitions in Brazil, Spain and the United States. The Museo Reina Sofía has acquired her work.
Noemí Martínez Díez
Argentine pedagogue and artist. Specialist in Art Therapy. Her versatility has led her to carry out numerous works over the years in the field of pedagogy and sculpture. From teaching, starting with art education for children. She taught classes at the UCM and in parallel conducted extensive research on Art Education, specialized in Art Therapy, directing doctoral theses, without abandoning her artistic career.
Irene Buarque
She is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist and pioneer in geometric art since the 1960s. In 1973 she goes to Portugal and settles there. Founding partner with Helena Almeida and Ernesto de Sousa, among others, of the Cooperative of Artists Diferença Comunicação Visual / 78. She has exhibitions in Brazil, Belgium, France, Portugal and Spain.
Maria Mallo
Architect, Spanish multidisciplinary artist and sculptor. Her latest projects have been financed and/or exhibited at the Orleans Architecture Biennial, Matadero Madrid, Medialab Prado, Fundación Banco Santander, DKV seguros, COAM, Young Art Hall of the Community of Madrid and Casa de la Cultura of El Escorial.
Additionally, she was Deputy Commissioner of the Spain Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2018 and Co-commissioner of the Madrid Future Festival, within the III International Congress of Architecture Loading 2010 Construtec-COAM. Co-founder of the architecture and design collective Leon11.
Mireia Luzárraga
Spanish architect and co-founder of Takk, a space for architectural production at the intersection between nature and culture with headquarters in Madrid and Barcelona. Part of her work belongs to the FRAC-Centre architecture center in France. Additionally, Takk has participated in international exhibitions in Venice, Orleans, Oslo and Rabat and has held two individual exhibitions in Vienna and Barcelona. Mireia is a professor at the University of Alicante, IAAC and BAU.
Nadja Jamard
Community psychologist and theater artist. Her research explores art, dance and theater as methodology for social work. She has worked on social interventions in countries such as Brazil, France and Spain.
