Soledad Córdoba (Avilés, 1977)
“I am interested in photography as a space for contemplation, a medium through which I can evoke emotions and experiences rooted in the personal yet amplified and expressed universally through a poetic language. Women are always the protagonists and guides in my work. Through performative self-referentiality, photography serves me as both a vital and symbolic document.
I conceive all my work as a grand project extended over time. Through symbolism, I delve into aspects that connect our bodies to the emotional and spiritual. It is a realm where beauty and the sinister are balanced, where the mystical and the earthly meet in a liminal space that fascinates me and serves as the foundation of my reflections.
The states of the soul, the transformations of the body, displaced identities devastated and reshaped by desires, fears, and pain—combined with the poetics of the landscape, the connection with the untamed nature in which we live, and the personal and familial spaces that are altered—are some of the themes present in my works. Currently, I am working from the transformative experience of motherhood, which simultaneously serves as a tribute to the creative woman, the primordial Eve, and the archetypal mother.”
Soledad Córdoba holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts and has received grants from the BBVA Foundation, CajAstur, AlNorte El Comercio, the Government of the Principality of Asturias, the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage and Casa Velázquez. Her work has been recognized in prestigious competitions such as ENAIRE, BNL Italy, UNED, the Youth Prize from the General Foundation of the Complutense University of Madrid, the City Council of Valdés, the Madrid City Council, the Asturias Ministry of Education and Culture, El Cultural and the Avenida de América Young Art Center.
Her numerous exhibitions include those at the CAI and the Revillagigedo Palace in Gijón, the PhotoEspaña festival, La Casa Encendida, the Conde Duque Cultural Center, the Botanical Garden in Madrid, art fairs such as ARCO, ArteSantander, Estampa, ArtLisboa, SWAB Fotofever Paris or the International Photography Fair at Ifema. She has also showcased her work at the Zamora Biennial, the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Cervantes Institutes in Chicago, Morocco, Prague, Italy, and Madrid, and renowned museums such as the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias, the Archaeological Museum of Asturias, Barjola, Greco, Nagasaki in Japan and Lázaro Galdiano.
Her work is included in prestigious collections, including the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, the Vila Casas Foundation, the ENAIRE Foundation, the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias, the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, the Colegio de España in Paris, UNED, the Complutense University Foundation of Madrid, the City Council of Valdés, and private collections such as DKV, Pilar Citoler, Sara Navarro, OlorVisual, Norte Government of Cantabria, Kiss FM, Artfairs, CajAstur, INJUVE, and Kells.
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