Ghada Amer

ESTO NOS SALVARÁ 2023-2024

For decades, Ghada Amer's work has revolved around the female body to show a sensuality that others would like to hide. Appropriating images from fashion magazines and advertising, the artist reflects on pleasure and the female role using embroidery as a means to draw shapes. The artist appropriates this technique that for years has been relegated to women, thus endowing her work with a symbolic charge. Over the years, her work evolved through the use of other techniques such as painting and sculpture. Thanks to experimentation in ceramics, she has discovered previously unknown chromatic ranges. Here we show some of his most recent works, tapestries that apparently look like stylized QR or labyrinths that treasure a message. They have been made in Cairo with an Egyptian technique used for centuries by craftsmen and that today shows its last vestiges.
ESTO NOS SALVARÁ 2023-2024

Works

  • Mi Mexicana

    Ghada Amer

    "Mi Mexicana"

    2018

    46 x 31 x 0 cm

    Cerámica esmaltada

  • Paradise in black

    Ghada Amer

    "Paradise in black"

    2015

    50 x 53 x 68 cm

    Cerámica

  • Earthy Kiss

    Ghada Amer

    "Earthy Kiss"

    2015

    50 x 22 x 25 cm

    Cerámica

  • Situation of injustice

    Ghada Amer

    "Situation of injustice"

    2023

    111 x 114 cm

    Bordado sobre lienzo

  • Raise your voice

    Ghada Amer

    "Raise your voice"

    2023

    124 x 120 cm

    Bordado sobre lienzo

  • The lady in red

    Ghada Amer

    "The lady in red"

    2021

    76 x 67 x 7 cm

    Cobre pintado

  • Mexican thoughts #12

    Ghada Amer

    "Mexican thoughts #12"

    2019

    23 x 10 x 8 cm

    Cerámica

  • Pensamiento Mexicano #10

    Ghada Amer

    "Pensamiento Mexicano #10"

    2019

    28 x 15 x 15 cm

    Cerámica

  • Girl in red landscape

    Ghada Amer

    "Girl in red landscape"

    2014

    64 x 58 x 2 cm

    Cerámica de loza con incrustaciones de porcelana y engobe de color

Reviews

ESTO NOS SALVARÁ

ESTO NOS SALVARÁ

by Pedro Medina & Viviana Kuri

"To look down from the land on a distant shipwreck and rejoice at the spectacle of another's ruin". These are the words of Lucretius' De rerum natura that inspired Hans Blumenberg's Shipwreck with a Spectator, an image that for centuries has served to study the changing position of human beings in the face of life and history, between risk and security, contemplation and action. Today, however, there is no coastline on which to feel safe, no place that is not exposed to the elements of climate change and so many other uncertainties, in the face of the transformation of values and references.

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