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Edén Barrena

MA work

MA work

  • Are migrants not human?

    Are migrants not human?, Edén Barrena 2014
    Billboard
    615 (w) x 317.5 (h) cm

  • Cinematic Drawings

    Cinematic Drawings , Edén Barrena 2014
    Series of four hundred drawings, colour crayons on found paper
    Variable sizes, 12 (w) x 15 (h) cm aprox

  • Colonia (detail)

    Colonia (detail), Edén Barrena 2015
    Series of nine lithographies (stone, three layers) on paper
    59.4 (w) x 42 (h) cm

  • The other

    The other, Edén Barrena 2015
    Artist book, risograph (four layers) on paper
    20 (w) x 27 (h) cm

  • Travelling from home (detail)

    Travelling from home (detail), Edén Barrena 2015
    Series of six lithographies (plate, one layer) on paper
    60 (w) x 80 (h) cm

La Catástrofe / About fiction

'The "other" is always distant as well as different, and against this difference the characteristics of self and society are formed and clarified.'
– Susan Hiller in The Myth of Primitivism, 1991


I am interested in the relationship between the self and the other, and in the estrangement and conflicts that this encounter generates. I use print, drawing and bookmaking in order to collect these confrontations and transmit the amazement to the viewer. Sometimes, these are small stories very well localised in a determined context, but in other occasions my work remits to phenomena that expand through history: migration, cultural identity, racism, colonialism and the discovery of the alien. Travelling is a key element of my practise, since it positions me in the role of the 'other', from where I can experiment in first person with the dislocation of the foreigner.

Programme
Printmaking
Sponsors
Metal Peterborough

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Humanities

    Programme

    MA Printmaking, 2015

  • Degrees

  • BA Fine Art, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2013

  • Experience

  • Internship as risograph printer, Hato Press, London, 2014–15; Billboard commission for Metal, Peterborough, 2014

  • Exhibitions

  • Offprint, Turbine Hall, TATE Modern, 2015; Objects of, CGP, London, 2015 ; Hong Kong Graphic Art Fiesta, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 2014; Hoarding, City Gallery, Peterborough, 2014; Skin/Cells, Fringe! Festival, London, 2014; Indie-vision, billboard project organized by Metal Culture, Peterborough, 2014; PopArtCube, ArtCube Gallery, London, 2014; Yesterday’s Wrong Thinking, CGP Gallery, London, 2014; WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2014; Rundgang, ABK-Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 2013; ZigZag, ABK-Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 2013; Espacio-cartela, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 2012

  • Awards

  • Residency Fellowship, Fundación Antonio Gala, Cordoba, Spain, 2015-16; Villiers Travel Grant, Shanghai, 2014; Erasmus scholarship, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2012–13

  • Publications

  • The Other, 2015 (self published); La noche, 2014, (self published); Cinematic Drawings, 2014 (self published)

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