Marta Valls has a Fine Arts degree from Barcelona University (1988), specialising in Photography. Marta lived and worked in England from 1988-1990, where started her artist professional career. In...
“Para que no me olvides” (“do not forget me”) is inspired by an old Spanish song, which recalls the main idea of this photographic series: the concept of time passing, remembering and forgetting, since the absence of memory might be considered as a sort of lost of identity. No memory means forgetting who we are.
“Para que no me olvides is bound to two main pulsions that feed our human mind: love and death, eros and thanatos; literary references are taken by two Spanish poets Blas de Otero, Miguel Hernandez.
Poetry is just a recall to focus on the main idea of memory and identity, absence and oblivion
November 8, 2009
February 19, 2012
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bread, identity, onion, past, poetry, roses, Hernandez, miguel