- AURORA SUÁREZ
- FIGUERAS
- FERNANDO REDRUELLO
- CORNELLANA
- DIONISIO GONZALEZ
- CANDÁS
- SOLEDAD CÓRDOBA
- GRADO
- CHECHU ÁLAVA Y JUAN FERNÁNDEZ
- CUDILLERO
- CARLOS CORONAS
- LA CARIDAD
AURORA SUÁREZ
León, 1963
After graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Universidad del País Vasco, Suárez Moreno completed postgraduate studies in London and Amsterdam. An adjunct professor at the School of Fine Arts, Universidad del País Vasco, she combines her teaching activity in secondary education institutions with a creative process she expands with her concern for the theory and practice of contemporary art and culture.
Although she began as a painter, Suárez Moreno would soon shift her interest to a type of sculpture experimenting with the use function of mundane objects, their constructive potential and ability to be redefined and interpreted in consonance with variable contexts. Another area of interest is manufactured products and post-industrial icons, in which the artist introduces key elements such as spatiality and light, coupled with an experimental use of new technologies in installations and performances, questioning the relationship between formal culture and popular culture.
Project
The space to be intervened, the building’s architectural configuration, its original social function and its symbolism, as well as its location in a border town, allow Suárez to reflect on the aesthetic reformulations, the keys and the messages enabled by space, time, technology, architecture or individual and collective memory, all of it in connection with the critical influences of the centre-periphery discourse seen from the viewpoint of power, gender policies and of the high culture – low culture dichotomy, with a special emphasis on what the artist defines as “the interests of the middle class to reformulate an aesthetic of the common unconsciousness.”
The venue chosen to host the mise en scène and rendering of these creative posits is the Torre del Reloj [Clock Tower] of Figueras, in the municipality of Castropol. The building was erected circa 1910 thanks to Domingo Gayol Magadán, an emigrant from Asturias who made his fortune in Argentina. Later, two additions were built on either sides to house the public school, all of it following the eclectic and Neo-Historicist architectural patterns of the time. The building was recently refurbished as a cultural centre.
