Júlia Lladó (Argentona, 2000) is a visual artist and photographer who constructs her work as a search for identity, focused on the exploration of the body and skin as artistic materials. Through her work, she questions stereotypes, challenges taboos and reflects on oppressed groups, incorporating in some projects a personal look at queerness and mental health.
The present exhibition brings together two series that start from the experience of the artist as an autistic woman and disc. Through self-portrait, he builds a space where the body becomes a place of conflict, experimentation and resistance.
Images, often intervened and manipulated – things, broken, altered or recorded – question the idea of identity as a fixed and stable form. The body is fragmented, deformed and reconfigured in an attempt to understand itself within a system that overflows and limits it. The words are scratched and inscribed directly on the photographic surface, leaving a physical mark, almost wounded.
On the one hand, the pieces explore the search for a possible “self”, traversed by the pressure to fit in and the violence of imposed ideals. On the other hand, the response to a structure that invalidates, excludes and discapacites emerges, making visible the physical and emotional consequences of this constant friction.
These works do not seek to resolve this tension, but to inhabit it. They are traces of a process: what remains after trying to adapt, after breaking, after resisting.
More information about the artist at https://www.julialladofoto.com/ and https://www.linktr.ee/JuliaLlado
Júlia Lladó (Argentona, 2000) is a visual artist and photographer who constructs her work as a search for identity, focused on the exploration of the body and skin as artistic materials. Through her work, she questions stereotypes, challenges taboos and reflects on oppressed groups, incorporating in some projects a personal look at queerness and mental health.
The present exhibition brings together two series that start from the experience of the artist as an autistic woman and disc. Through self-portrait, he builds a space where the body becomes a place of conflict, experimentation and resistance.
Images, often intervened and manipulated – things, broken, altered or recorded – question the idea of identity as a fixed and stable form. The body is fragmented, deformed and reconfigured in an attempt to understand itself within a system that overflows and limits it. The words are scratched and inscribed directly on the photographic surface, leaving a physical mark, almost wounded.
On the one hand, the pieces explore the search for a possible “self”, traversed by the pressure to fit in and the violence of imposed ideals. On the other hand, the response to a structure that invalidates, excludes and discapacites emerges, making visible the physical and emotional consequences of this constant friction.
These works do not seek to resolve this tension, but to inhabit it. They are traces of a process: what remains after trying to adapt, after breaking, after resisting.
More information about the artist at https://www.julialladofoto.com/ and https://www.linktr.ee/JuliaLlado