- MAITE CENTOL
- VILLAVICIOSA
- NATALIA PASTOR
- GRADO
- AVELINO SALA
- LUANCO
- ADOLFO MANZANO
- PRAVIA
- PABLO ARMESTO
- COVADONGA
- JUAN CARLOS MARTINEZ
- LUANCO
- CUCO SUÁREZ
- LANGREO
NATALIA PASTOR
Pola de Laviana, 1970
A graduate in Painting and Audiovisuals from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Universidad del País Vasco, this artist has presented her work in many solo and group exhibitions, and has received several awards.
In her work, Pastor's interest in the most varied materials and media is always at the service of a subject matter exploring the female condition, the essence of nature, social roles and the impact of advertising on the identity of the urban landscape.
Project
"This is the foundation of the city: a net which serves as passage and as support" is how Italo Calvino defines Octavia, one of his Invisible Cities.
Natalia Pastor takes this literary formulation as the starting point for her conceptualisation of an installation with silhouettes of female bodies standing out as the most distinctive elements, transmitting states of tension, struggle, despondency or neglect, which are then superimposed on industrial landscapes or of infrastructures in the Nalon area.
The symbolic component of these backdrops of smoky chimneys and complex structures, remitting to a space profoundly affected by the industrial crisis and restructuring, reinforces the idea of floating bodies, exhausted from the daily struggle, weakened by intimate wounds and subject to the winds of external events that turn them into mere objects on which violent obsessions accumulate.
They are all bodies of women remitting to a female condition undermined by a double vexation: one socioeconomic, intensifying the consequences of the crisis, taking them to their ultimate consequences; and the vexation inherent to the female condition within a sociological system perpetuating ties and marginalisation within the spider web closing the city limits and turning them into a prison.
