Eva Agasa

In recent years I wanted to approach memory by contemplating the family album in my work. The private and anonymous family photographs have served me to reflect on the power of evocation of the printed image in the one who contemplates it. My reflection comes close to what Marianne Hirsch called Postmemoria when I reinterpret the scenes of private life that appear in the old photographs bought in markets and antiquarians and of which I do not know their real history.

These scenes of private life speak of past and family, of what we have in common and moves us all.

In my paintings, I intend to capture the instant in which the photos carry us to the past, when after seeing them we closed our eyes, preserving in the retina the image with the already diluted forms and the colors synthesized. That flash produced by the brain that will accompany us forever. The essence of an unexperienced moment that we have made ours.

My reflection also addresses the history and current moment of private photography. Documentary value has long been given to journalistic and professional photography, but the photos that families cherish in their homes eventually disappear when families disappear. I think it is precisely these photos, with their ...

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, Spain

Individual Exhibitions (Selection)

2016 "Golden Years" Eva Agasa and Roc Blackblock. Escola d'Art i Disseny de la Diputació, Tortosa.
2016 "Golden Years" Eva Agasa and Roc Blackblock. Community Centre Baró de Viver, Barcelona.
2016 "Representacions" Eva Agasa and Mentxu Fernández. Gallery Espai Cavallers 31-33, Lleida
2016 "Golden Years" Eva Agasa and Roc Blackblock. N2 Gallery, Barcelona.
2014 Exhibition of small format works in the gallery La Casa de la Espiral, Barcelona
2014 Exhibition of paintings "Mirades" at the Seshat Library of the Swiss School of Barcelona 2014 Guest artist in the gallery The House of the Spiral in the framework of the "Tallers Oberts a Gràcia"
2013 Exhibition of paintings "Escenes" in the House of Culture of Ulldecona

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2018 "IX Premi Internacional FBO: Art sobre paper", Museu Olímpic i de l'Esport. Fundació Barcelona Olímpica, Barcelona.
2017 7 Price of painting Torres-García Ciutat de Mataró.Iluro Foundation, Mataró
2017 "VIII Premi Internacional FBO: Art sobre paper", Museu Olímpic i de l'Esport. Fundació Barcelona Olímpica, Barcelona.
2016 "VII Premi Internacional FBO: Art sobre paper", Olympic and Sport Museum. Fundació Barcelona Olímpica, Barcelona.
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