Ángeles Agrela

On November 7th, Août Gallery will open a group exhibition in collaboration with Yusto Giner Gallery, curated by Marìa Rodriguez Romero, at Belvedere Art Space in Dubai, UAE.

One of the participating artists is Ángeles Agrela, and above is a sneak peek of the works that will be shown. The latter can also be said about this special blogpost !

More info very soon !

Ángeles Agrela (b. 1966, Úbeda, Spain) has resided in Naples, La Habana, and Berlin, and currently lives and works in Granada.

Her recent works seek to conceptualize the role of women within the History of Art by creating a contemporary representative view. Following this theme, the key feature of her drawings becomes the hair, which has important cultural and historical connotations within representation of the feminine. She uses the symbolic charge and communicatory capacity of hair to create an exaggerated mass that often substitutes the face or hides it completely, as a playful way to divert attention away from the face and towards how women choose to represent themselves.