This work follows the traces left by the dancer Carmen Tórtola Valencia, which must be examined with a magnifying glass in order to find the detail and the subtext. It speculates beyond the archival image, beyond what the press of the time reported, and beyond what Tórtola could and wanted to share at that particular moment.
The story is shaped through different poetic performative gestures that allow us to revisit memory and explore other possible narratives and responses with which to archive the present, as well as to recover and acknowledge references within art and within our lives.
Lara Brown, born in Burgos, currently develops her work between Madrid and Barcelona. She is an artist and performer. She understands creation as a generator of a poetic gesture that, through research, can function as a gift, as an exchange of affections that can accompany us in inhabiting the world as gently as possible.