Emmascarats, 1976/2020
Emmascarats (Masked Figures, 1976) consists of a number of black and white photographs showing a portrait bust of a woman with her face covered with a range of items. Also presented is the sequence of the face uncovered and being gradually covered till it is completely hidden. The mask, the act of masking, conceals, covers, hides, erases but also blurs. In a manner similar to the action of dissolving the face, this group of works is a series of portraits without substance, without subjectivity: they are anti-portraits. The individual, the woman, disappears. Whereas in other instances we find her ‘objectified’, here the attention is drawn to the attributes, which hide her.
Technical details
- Original title:
- Emmascarats
- Registration number:
- 5872
- Artist:
- Miralles, Fina
- Date created:
- 1976/2020
- Date acquired:
- 2020
- Status:
- On loan
- Fonds:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium
- Object type:
- Photograph
- Media:
- Inkjet print on paper
- Dimensions:
- 6 "Emmascarats" photographs: 68 x 100 cm each; 4 photographs of the working process: 50 x 74 cm each (height x width x depth)
- Credits:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium. Gift of the artist
- Copyright:
- © Fina Miralles
- It has accessibility resources:
- No
The MACBA Collection features Catalan, Spanish and international art and, although it includes works from the 1920s onwards, its primary focus is on the period between the 1960s and the present.
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