Cecilia Avenda o
Born in Chile in 1980
Chilean artist
The theme that Cecilia Avenda o talks about in Enfermedades Preciosas is the search for beauty in disease, the glorification of pain through discomfort.
Her work combines portrait photography to express the unconscious reality that women experience in the modern world. One of the main goals of her work seems to inspire nostalgia: a photograph is both a fake presence and a symbol of absence. Photographs—especially those of people, distant landscapes and distant cities, the vanished past—are incitement to reverie (Susan Sontag, On Photography). The idealization of their gender that most women accept is a way of making women feel inferior to what they actually are or how they usually grow up. For the ideal of beauty is governed as a form of self-oppression. "Cecilia Avenda o's work recognizes the concept of identity by exploring the ideals of beauty, femininity, and the body in a contemporary world in which the division of the subjective and superficial worlds is a natural consequence of the roles that individuals play in real life. She explains: "My work philosophy is to return to the essence and connect with the spirit, women can be the absolute masters of their destiny, their personalities become indomitable, because I am a woman and I have been going through the process of finding myself.
The artworks are all combined in a poetic way, transforming dreams into indescribable visual structures. Here, disease is not only seen from a pathological point of view, but as an act of sublimation, a chain that binds us together, transforming pain into healing.
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