Gloria Oyarzabal Explained

Gloria Oyarzabal (born 1971)[1] is a Spanish visual artist and teacher who works in photography and cinema.[2] She was the co-founder of the Independent Cinema “La Enana Marrón” (The Brown Dwarf) in Madrid (1999–2009), a theater that showcased films d'auteur and "experimental and alternative cinema."[3] [4] She is the winner of several international photography awards and prizes.

Early life

Oyarzabal was born in London. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University Madrid and a Master’s degree from the Blank Paper School of Photography, Madrid.[5] Oyarzabal lived in Mali for three years, researching "the ideal of Africa that Europe has created for its own benefit".[6]

Career

In 2016, Oyarzabal created a "docu-fiction" photography collection centred on Sir John Everett Millais' Ophelia, which was featured in The Huffington Post.[7] She views Ophelia as the ultimate symbol of women's oppression. Speaking about her work in this series Oyarzabal said "I feel satisfied if I can convey this idea of oppression, anxiety, and the breathlessness of some women".

In 2017, Oyarzabal won the Landskrona Foto Dummy Award for her project The Picnolepsy of Tshombé.[8] After being displayed at the Landskrona Foto Festival, the newly renamed Picnos Tshombé photobook went on to be presented and published in Arles, gaining international recognition.

in September 2018, Oyarzabal's work has been featured in the Vevey open-air photography festival, in Switzerland .[9] This work, Pink Girl, Woman go no'gree, was also re-produced in The Guardian in 2019. Oyarzabal's work focuses on the Yoruba people, looking into evidence showing that their original society was not gendered. Her project Woman go no'gree questions the application of notions of gender in western feminism to different cultures which function differently.

In 2020, Oyarzabal was Highly Commended for the Bartur Photo Award in the COVID-19 Reflections series.[10]

In 2020, Oyarzabal was the winner of aperture PhotoBook of the Year for Woman go no'gree.[11] The book explores colonialism and white feminism through the use of found images and archives from West Africa and her own photographs. Farah Maakel writes in The Art Momentum, "She worked from the perspective of an artist and not an academic, nor an anthropologist, nor a writer, and her position as a white European woman here is the keystone of her work. In fact, instead of daring to use the voice of the so-called Other, she uses her voice as a translation of her own gaze onto the other – especially the western construction of the concept of women."[12] A review in the photography magazine Conscientious states, "The viewer is made to look at women living in Africa in a variety of ways, and the overall feeling is one of self-determination: these women neither need colonial administrators to tell them what to do nor contemporary men from their own or any other culture."[13]

Works

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gloria Oyarzabal . registration . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230311161508/https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Gloria-Oyarzabal/A209B6B0FBC7514D . 11 March 2023 . 2 December 2021 . . en.
  2. Web site: Carazo . Guillermo . 31 December 2020 . Gloria Oyarzabal: 'La colonización no solo es un acto violento, geopolítico, cruel. También implica una parte sutil que es la colonización de la mente' . Gloria Oyarzabal: 'Colonization is not only a violent, geopolitical, cruel act. It also implies a subtle part that is the colonization of the mind.' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230226043751/https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/gloria-oyarzabal-colonizacion-no-acto-violento-geopolitico-cruel-economico-hay-parte-sutil-colonizacion-mente_128_6524388.html . 26 February 2023 . 11 March 2021 . . es.
  3. Web site: Acheampong . Nicole . 18 April 2020 . 2020 Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Gloria Oyarzabal . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230226042723/https://aperture.org/editorial/2020-portfolio-prize-gloria-oyarzabal/ . 26 February 2023 . 6 March 2021 . . en-US.
  4. Web site: Gloria Oyarzabal . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231123033845/https://phmuseum.com/u/gloriaglow . 23 November 2023 . 6 March 2021 . PhMuseum . en.
  5. Web site: Gloria Oyarzabal . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230222220339/https://www.lensculture.com/gloria-oyarzabal . 22 February 2023 . 6 March 2021 . LensCulture.
  6. Web site: Gloria Oyarzabal . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230222221833/https://www.barturphotoaward.org/gloria-oyarzabal . 22 February 2023 . 11 March 2021 . BarTur Photo Award . en.
  7. Web site: Frank . Priscilla . 14 June 2016 . Nude Photos Explore 'Ophelia' As A Symbol Of Women's Oppression . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220815075834/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nude-photos-ophelia_n_575f069fe4b053d43305d07b . 15 August 2022 . 11 March 2021 . . en.
  8. Web site: 2020 . Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2020 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220628234450/https://www.landskronafoto.org/en/dummy-award/ . 28 June 2022 . 11 March 2021 . Landskrona Foto . en-US.
  9. News: 8 September 2020 . Stone the crows! The strangest shots from the Vevey festival – in pictures . en-GB . . live . 11 March 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230204034052/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/08/stone-the-crows-the-strangest-shots-from-the-vevey-festival-in-pictures . 4 February 2023 . 0261-3077.
  10. Web site: 2020 . 2020 Winners . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220705085251/https://www.barturphotoaward.org/covid19winners2020 . 5 July 2022 . 11 March 2021 . BarTur Photo Award . en.
  11. Web site: 4 December 2020 . Announcing the Winners of the 2020 PhotoBook Awards . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211027034440/https://aperture.org/editorial/paris-photo-aperture-photobook-award-winners-2020/ . 27 October 2021 . 11 March 2021 . . en-US.
  12. News: Maakel . Farah . 1 July 2021 . Displaying Rather Than Teaching: Gloria Oyarzabal's Women Go No'gree . The Art Momentum . live . 7 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230321102155/https://theartmomentum.com/gloria-oyarzabal/ . 21 March 2023.
  13. News: Colberg . Jörg M. . 15 February 2021 . Woman Go No'Gree . Conscientious . live . 7 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230128110736/https://cphmag.com/woman-go-nogree/ . 28 January 2023.
  14. Web site: 16 December 2020 . Woman Go No´Gree: Colonialism and White Feminism in West Africa . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211017103744/https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/woman-go-no-gree-colonialism-and-white-feminism-in-west-africa/ . 17 October 2021 . 6 March 2021 . . en-gb.
  15. Book: Oyarzabal, Gloria . Woman go no'gree . RM Verlag, S.L. . 2020 . 9788417975289 . Barcelona, Spain . en . 1164359335.
  16. Web site: 2020 . Encontros da Imagem Discovery Awards 2020 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230313103112/https://contests.picter.com/encontros-da-imagem-discovery-awards-2020 . 13 March 2023 . 11 March 2021 . contests.picter.com.
  17. Web site: Images Vevey Book Award 2021. 2021-03-11. contests.picter.com.
  18. Web site: Gloria Oyarzabal WOMAN GO NO'GREE. 2021-03-06. PHOTO IS:RAEL. en-US.
  19. Web site: Gloria Oyarzabal. 2021-03-06. fotofestiwal.com/2019. en.
  20. News: 5 December 2020 . 2020 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards . en . . live . 7 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230224081922/https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/article/2020-paris-photo-aperture-foundation-photobook-awards . 24 February 2023.

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