1:1 Photo Magazine |M. Antonia García de la Vega

TITULO

“Pasajeras” is a work of portraits of women linked to the world of art and culture that is made up of 157 portraits and that has materialized in a book and will soon be exhibited at the Alcobendas Art Center.
To give visibility and show women who move in the world of art and culture. In this series of portraits there are photographers, painters, sculptors, journalists, writers, curators, art critics, teachers, cultural managers…
The way of carrying it out has been in a studio and with a very simple staging, where an object was chosen that showed something of the taste, personality and hobby of the person portrayed.
Investigating the ambiguities of identity has always interested me and it was a challenge to do it in the female world and in a more timeless way than the one I did in Ucronicos.
Always that game between reality and fiction that interests me so much. What the person shows and what they hide. The secret experience that is hidden behind each face, beyond the visual appearance.
Pasajeras undoubtedly alludes to the journey. To the passage of life that each one carries with them. But their luggage is very light. Small objects with which they want to accompany each other or with which they have wanted to identify themselves. They are their lives, their professions, their desires or simply their love of nature. And they hold them, not like someone who grabs something immaterial, they caress them with the tenderness of something personal, close. A stone, a ball of wool, a flower, a book or even a skull. All of them become an everlasting symbol.”
As Estrella de Diego says in the prologue she has written: “They are the passengers and they arrive from distant and elusive lands, those of thought and imagination... and each ordinary object acquires the status of a treasure rescued from a ruin... camouflage from which - what a paradox - each deep-rooted and profound story begins.”