Ghada Amer

ESTO NOS SALVARÁ 2023-2024

For decades, Ghada Amer's work has revolved around the female body to show a sensuality that others would like to hide. Appropriating images from fashion magazines and advertising, the artist reflects on pleasure and the female role using embroidery as a means to draw shapes. The artist appropriates this technique that for years has been relegated to women, thus endowing her work with a symbolic charge. Over the years, her work evolved through the use of other techniques such as painting and sculpture. Thanks to experimentation in ceramics, she has discovered previously unknown chromatic ranges. Here we show some of his most recent works, tapestries that apparently look like stylized QR or labyrinths that treasure a message. They have been made in Cairo with an Egyptian technique used for centuries by craftsmen and that today shows its last vestiges.

ESTO NOS SALVARÁ 2023-2024

Exhibited works

  • Mi Mexicana

    Ghada Amer

    "Mi Mexicana"

    2018

    46.5 x 31.5 x 0.5 cm

    AS-4865

    Cerámica esmaltada

  • Paradise in black

    Ghada Amer

    "Paradise in black"

    2015

    50.8 x 53.3 x 68.5 cm

    AS-4864

    Cerámica

  • Earthy Kiss

    Ghada Amer

    "Earthy Kiss"

    2015

    50.8 x 22.9 x 25.4 cm

    AS-4866

    Cerámica

  • Situation of injustice

    Ghada Amer

    "Situation of injustice"

    2023

    114 x 111 cm

    AS-4876

    Bordado sobre lienzo

  • Raise your voice

    Ghada Amer

    "Raise your voice"

    2023

    120 x 124.5 cm

    AS-4877

    Bordado sobre lienzo

  • The lady in red

    Ghada Amer

    "The lady in red"

    2021

    76.2 x 67.3 x 7.6 cm

    AS-4880

    Cobre pintado

  • Mexican thoughts #12

    Ghada Amer

    "Mexican thoughts #12"

    2019

    23.5 x 10.3 x 8.2 cm

    AS-4873

    Cerámica

  • Pensamiento Mexicano #10

    Ghada Amer

    "Pensamiento Mexicano #10"

    2019

    28 x 15 x 15 cm

    AS-4869

    Cerámica

  • Girl in red landscape

    Ghada Amer

    "Girl in red landscape"

    2014

    64.8 x 58.4 x 2.5 cm

    AS-4863

    Cerámica de loza con incrustaciones de porcelana y engobe de color

Reviews

ESTO NOS SALVARÁ

ESTO NOS SALVARÁ

por Pedro Medina & Viviana Kuri

«Mirar desde la tierra un naufragio lejano y alegrarse del espectáculo de la ruina ajena». Estas son las palabras del De rerum natura de Lucrecio que inspiraron el Naufragio con espectador de Hans Blumenberg, una imagen que durante siglos ha servido para estudiar la posición cambiante del ser humano ante la vida y la historia, entre riesgo y seguridad, contemplación y acción. Sin embargo, hoy no existe costa en la que sentirnos seguros, ni lugar que no esté expuesto a la intemperie del cambio climático y a tantas otras incertidumbres, ante la transformación de valores y referencias.

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