Dora García
Golden sentence (Love comes from the most unexpected places.), 2005 – 2019
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Letters painted in gold leaf.
Variable dimension.
Each sentence is possible in any language.
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UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizThe Plague Annotated, 2018
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Graphite on wallpaper
330 x 370 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto RuizThe Plague Annotated, 2018 (Detail)
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Graphite on wallpaper
330 x 370 cm
UniquePhoto: Graphite on wallpaper 330 x 370 cm UniqueSegunda Vez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2018
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Photo: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Joaquín Cortés/Román LoresSegunda Vez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2018
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Photo: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Joaquín Cortés/Román LoresMad Marginal Charts, notes on Love #3, 2018
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Pencil on paper, 27,5 x 21 cm. Framed: 30,5 x 24 x 3 cm
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Photo: ProjecteSDMad Marginal Charts, notes on Love #2, 2018
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Pencil on paper, 27,5 x 21 cm. Framed: 30,5 x 24 x 3 cm
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Photo: ProjecteSDMad Marginal Charts, notes on Love #1, 2018
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Pencil on paper, 27,5 x 21 cm. Framed: 30,5 x 24 x 3 cm
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Photo: ProjecteSDSegunda Vez, 2018
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Video, color, 16:9. Audio: Spanish, Basque, French & English, length; 92'
Available with Spanish, English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copySegunda vez, 2017
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Video, color, 16:9. Audio: Spanish, length; 44'
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Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copyLa Eterna, 2017
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Video, color, 16:9. Audio: Spanish, French and English, length; 49'
Available with Spanish, English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copy
Photo: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Joaquín Cortés/Román LoresPara Inducir el Espíritu de la Imagen, 2016
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Video, color, 16:9. Audio: Spanish, length; 63'
Available with English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copyEl Helicóptero, 2017
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Single channel, HD Video, colour, sound, 16:9, 23'10"
Audio: Basque & Spanish
Available with English or French subtitles
Ed. 6 + 1AP + 1 Exh. copyOn the way to Language, 2017
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Book by Martin Heidegger and hand written book by Dora García
20,5 x 13,5 x 1,5 each
Unique work
Photo: Francesc DanielEco Oscuro, 2016
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Pencil and color pencil on various copies of book Eco Oscuro by Francisco Baena
Measure each book: 18 x 11 cm
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Photo: Francesc DanielRespiración Artificial (Escalera II), 2017
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Ladder and two books
129 h x 132 cm diameter
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Photo: Roberto RuizRespiración Artificial (Escalera II), 2017 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto RuizRespiración Artificial, 2016
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Performance
2 performers, 2 tables, 2 chairs, texts
Unique work
Exhibition view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Photo: Elisa Bermejo. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, ValenciaRespiración Artificial, 2016
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Performance
2 performers, 2 tables, 2 chairs, texts
Unique work
Exhibition view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Photo: Elisa Bermejo. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, ValenciaPerformance, 2016
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Performance
6 actors, 6 scripts, table, 6 chairs
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Exhibition view: Respiración artificial. Performance. Eco oscuro.
IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Photo: Elisa Bermejo. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, ValenciaAttempts to Forge a Letter from Joyce to Ibsen in 1901 Nº 12, 2015
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Ink on paper, 4 parts
29,5 x 18 cm each part
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Photo: Roberto RuizAttempt to Forge a Letter from Joyce to Ibsen in 1901 Nº 12, 2015 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto RuizAttempt to Forge a Letter from Joyce to Ibsen in 1901 Nº 11, 2015
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Ink on paper, 2 parts
27,5 x 21 cm each part
Measures with frame structure: 61 x 2,5 x 24,6 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizAttempt to Forge a Letter from Joyce to Ibsen in 1901 Nº 11, 2015 (detail)
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Photo: Roberto RuizThe Joycean Society, 2013
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Video HD, colour, stereo, sound. Length: 53'
Available with subtitles in English and Spanish
Ed. 6 + 3 APExhausted Books II, 2013
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10 copies of Finnegans Wake with handwritten annotations, notes, clippings, stones, laid on table; blackboard with text in chalk
Variable dimensions
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Photo: Desitjos i necessitats. Noves incorporacions a la Col·lecció MACBA, 2016The Joycean Society #1, 2013
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Chair engraved plate, book
60 x 50 x 50 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizThe Joycean Society #1, 2013 (detail)
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Chair engraved plate, book
60 x 50 x 50 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizThe Joycean Society #1, 2013 (detail)
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Chair engraved plate, book
60 x 50 x 50 cm
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Photo: Roberto RuizDie Klau Mich Show, 2012 (Detail of set)
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Television show for dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany
Die Klau Mich Show, 2012
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Television show for dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany
Performance view: Metanoia: destruction in art and the dialectics of liberation with Ellen Blumenstein, Samir Kandil, Jan Mech, Theater Chaosium and Tabu. Guests: Peter Cross, Leon Redler and Homage to Gustav Metzger.The Inadequate, 2011
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Installation, mixed media
View: Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011
Photo: Miguel BalbuenaReal Artists Don’t Have Teeth, 2010-2011
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Performance
View: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011. Performer: Jacob Tamm
Photo: Thorsten ArendtThe essential Lenny Bruce, 2007-2011
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Performance
View: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011. Performer: Peter Aers
Photo: Thorsten ArendtThe artist without works: A Guided Tour Around Nothing, 2008-2011
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Performance
View: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011. Performers: Michelangelo Miccolis (left) and Paolo Ferrara
Photo: Thorsten ArendtWhere do characters go when the story is over?, 2009-2011
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Performance
View: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011. Performers: William Holden and Geoffrey Carrey
The Inadequate (Archive), 2011 (installation detail)
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View: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011
Photo: Roman MensigThe Inadequate (Archive), 2011 (installation detail)
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View: The Inadequate, Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, June 2011
Photo: Roman MensigThe Inadequate, 2011
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Video HD, colour, stereo, sound. Length: 40'
Available with subtitles in English and Spanish
Ed. 5 + 1 APThe Deviant Majority, 2010
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Video HD, color, stereo, 16:9. Length: 34’
Available with subtitles in English and Spanish
Ed. 5 + 1 APAnd then, between two shots of the camera, he’s gone, 2009
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2 C-prints, 60 x 40 cm each
Ed. 3 + 1 APThe Beggar’s Opera, 2007
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Performance of Charles Filch for Skulptur Projekte Munster, 2007Film (Hôtel Wolfers), 2007
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35 mm film transferred to digibeta
Length; 11'31"
Ed. 5 + 2APForever, 2005 / New Forever, 2011
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2 monitors connected via computer to 2 webcams installed in one room of the FRAC Lorraine (Metz, France) and the New Museum (New York, USA). Contracts signed by the artist and both institutions. Complete series of the Forever books published up-to-date.
Exhibition view: Forever, ProjecteSD, 2011
Photo: ProjecteSDFrases de oro (Golden sentences), 2005-ongoing
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Letters painted in gold leaf. Dimension variable
Each sentence is unique, available and possible in any language
Typography: Helvetica Bold
Unique
Installation view, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2013
Photo: Roberto RuizFahrenheit 451 (1969), 2002
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2000 mirror-printed books of the 1969 edition of Ray Bradbury´s masterpiece, table. Dimensions variable.
Unique work
La habitación cerrada, 2002
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Door, wall and vinil lettering
Typography: Times bold, title in italics; colour: dark grey matt
Variable dimensions
Ed. 3
Exhibition view: Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, 2008
Photo: Freddy Le Saux
Biography
Born in Valladolid, Spain, 1965
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain
Dora García reflects on the parameters and conventions governing the presentation of art, on the question of time (real and fictional) and on the boundaries between representation and reality. Through her work the artist presents reality as multiple and questionable and explores the relationship between the artist, the work, and the public. She acts like a cinema director who tells stories (or simply selects them), unchains a situation, situates us in a scenario or makes us participants in a game the rules of which are very similar to reality and for this very fact allow us to question it. Her work, conceptual in nature, consists of text, photographs, and installations restricted to a specific location. She often draws on participation and performance. Through minimal changes, the exhibition space is converted into a different experience for each visitor, who leaves it with his or her perceptions altered, or at least with a degree of scepticism and doubt.
Selected Texts
- 2016Various AuthorsJournal de La Verrière
- 2014Bryne McLaughlinArtforum
- 2013Angela MolinaBabelia
- 2011Paula AchiagaEl Cultural
- 2011Max AndrewsFrieze
- 2009Vincent HonoréInterview with Dora García
- 2007Montse BadiaContes Choisis
- 2007Peio AguirreArqueologías del Futuro
- 2002Sonia Dermience- Jan MotThe Locked Room
Exhibitions
- 03—04 May 2022
- 13 September — 06 November 2013
- 27 September — 03 November 2018
- 19—27 May 2023
- 01—28 February 2023
- 07 May — 29 July 2022
- 10 September — 14 November 2020
- 23 April — 04 May 2019
- 30 August — 16 September 2017
- 14 December 2016 — 03 January 2017
News
- 21 June — 28 August 2023
GROUP SHOW: MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA, MADRID, SPAIN
- 10 February — 21 May 2023
SOLO SHOW: MUHKA, ANTWERP
- 24 November 2022 — 26 March 2023
SOLO SHOW: Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Ciudad de México
- 17 November 2022 — 16 April 2023
Group show: El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria, Barcelona
- 30 October — 31 December 2022
SOLO PRESENTATION: REIAL MONESTIR DE SANTES CREUS
- 16 September — 16 December 2022
SOLO SHOW: RIALTO6, LISBON
- 27 November 2021 — 16 December 2022
GROUP SHOW: MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA, MADRID, SPAIN
- 19 October — 31 December 2021
- 7 October 2021 — 9 January 2022
SOLO SHOW: Mattatoio di Roma
- 3 September — 19 December 2021
TWO SOLO SHOWS: Fotogalleriet, OSLO / Netwerk Aalst, BELGIUM
- 6 August — 23 September 2021
GROUP SHOW: Gallery Arsenał in Białystok, Poland
- 28 May — 29 August 2021
Group show: Tabakalera, San Sebastián, Spain
- 25 March — 23 May 2021
Group show: IVAM, Valencia
- 14 February — 17 May 2020
SOLO SHOW: ROSE ART MUSEUM, WALTHAM
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Spanish artist Dora García (b. Valladolid, 1965) focuses on her work of the recent years to open new platforms of analysis, reflection and visibility. Through a practice that prioritizes the use of performance in a participative manner, García will transform the Lois Foster Gallery into a living platform to investigate the relationship between audience, architecture and artistic work.
Love with Obstacles includes both newly commissioned works and existing projects, and also features drawings, films, intervened documents and letters that will be activated through performances and readings to articulate a collective space where dialogue is central. Two newly commissioned works will be premiered at the Rose Art Museum: the film Love with Obstacles, focusing on the legacy of the extraordinary author, feminist, October revolutionary, political exile and diplomat, Alexandra Kollontai (St. Petersburg,1872– Moscow, 1952) who advocated for the sexual emancipation of women and radical equality; The Labyrinth of Female Freedom, a performance where female poetics and politics meet; and a new production of García’s series Golden Sentences: the sentence “She has many names” opens the exhibition.
- 17—21 December 2019
SCREENING: FABRA I COATS, BARCELONA
- 20 September — 27 October 2019
GROUP SHOW: TIMISOARA BIENNIAL
- 14 September — 17 November 2019
GROUP SHOW: Can Palauet, Mataró
- 12 September 2019 — 19 January 2020
GROUP SHOW: GROPIUS BAU, BERLIN
- 1 August — 26 October 2019
GROUP SHOW: AICHI TRIENNALE
- 20 June — 15 September 2019
GROUP SHOW: BÒLIT, CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORANI GIRONA
- 14 June — 1 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: GRAZER KUNSTVEREIN
- 6 April — 11 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: ZKM KARLSRUHE
- 8 June — 18 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: GALERIA MUNICIPAL DO PORTO
- 6—11 June 2019
SCREENING: OLHAR DE CINEMA - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CURITIBA
- 25 May 2019 — 31 May 2024
GROUP SHOW: FIRST BIENNALE IN OSLO
- 30—31 March 2019
SCREENING: SEGUNDA VEZ AND JOYCEAN SOCIETY AT ICA, LONDON
- 15 March — 25 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: LES ABATTOIRS, TOULOUSE
- 15 February — 5 April 2019
GROUP SHOW: FONDAZIONE BARUCHELLO, ROME
- 17 January — 28 April 2019
GROUP SHOW: WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON
- 5 December 2018 — 17 February 2019
SOLO SHOW: BONNIERS KONSTHALL, STOCKHOLM
- 15 October — 16 December 2018
GROUP SHOW, FONDATION HIPPOCRÊNE, PARIS
- 9 September 2018 — 6 January 2019
GROUP SHOW: WITTE DE WITH
- 11 July 2018
2018'S ARTE Y MECENAZGO ARTIST AWARD
- 25 May — 16 September 2018
SOLO SHOW, TRONDHEIM KUNSTMUSEUM, TRONDHEIM. NORWAY
- 17 April — 3 September 2018
SOLO SHOW, MNCARS, MADRID