Ángela Cuadra

Ángela Cuadra investigates images related to concealment techniques used throughout recent history, conducting a broad phenomenological study of invisibility.

By examining the tensions between the natural and the artificial, the public and the private, the whole and the parts, the essential and the superfluous, the artist employs materials with pre-existing historical and semantic significance, transforming and reinterpreting them. Rooted in collage and approached intuitively, her works create compositions where the found material is barely altered, allowing forms to take center stage through their juxtaposition with other materials.

The special focus on the dialogue between fragments, and the emotion that arises from discovering harmonies of color, shape, or texture, makes the perception of her work resemble that of a musical composition. Creating language without literature, making music without melody, painting without paint. Building from what is given, from what is found on the margins.

She has exhibited at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Centro de Arte Joven, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, and CentroCentro in Madrid; Today Museum in Beijing; Centro del Carmen in Valencia; Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona; Fundación Cultural de Providencia in Providencia (Chile); Fundación María José Jové in A Coruña; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela; International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) in Ljubljana; Frans Masereel Centrum (FMC) in Kasterlee (Belgium); International Print Triennial Society in Krakow (SMTG) in Krakow; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU) in Rijeka (Croatia); and Foundation Tallinn Print Triennial (TPT) in Tallinn.