katya romero

“… In the work of this artist the substantial experience of the female body is established in the identity discourse, when the heroines -- who are real or invented women – reveal their representative character by posing as a means to approach other identities.  This series results from her previous work entitled “Tired Bodies” that already showed an interest on defragementation.  The twosome of an image split out in itself revealed by that leitmotif -- the essential cord -- is an undeniable motivation due to its heavy emotional meaning.  The artist intervenes the image digitally and distorts “reality” in order to meditate on the altered, deformed, disproportionate and twisted body, to debuild and transgress the margins of the image, maybe as a means to study her own personal reality.  The body, understood as an expressive physiognomy, is subject to digital processes to create a contradictory unreality and a deforming look which, however, allows a glimpse at evident body parts -- legs, arms, elongated torsos, women without face -- suggesting sexually charged event, situations that talk through the strength of the expression, chromatic contrasts and the irrefutable presence of the body….” 

José Fernando Navarro Ferrero,  Curator "Feminas"

Bogota , Colombia 2005