TERRASSA, 1971 Carme Aliaga
She works with collage to highlight this contradiction between the solidity of architectures and the fragility of paper, emphasising wear and tear, traces and memory.
She loves the effect that light has on architectures, the geometries it draws, the games and dialogues it generates, the voids it creates.
With a degree in Fine Arts, specialising in painting, from the University of Barcelona, Carme Aliaga has held numerous exhibitions, both individual and collective, in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Lleida, Copenhagen, Odense, Skagen, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Strasbourg and Paris. She has also received numerous awards and distinctions. Her work forms part of various collections such as the Vila Casas Foundation, Banco Sabadell and La Caixa, among others.
She is interested in the city as a metaphor for human complexity, always under construction. How we build on something that already exists, on previous configurations. She likes the effect that light has on architectures, the geometries it draws, the games and dialogues it generates, the voids it creates.
She works with collage to highlight this contradiction between the solidity of architectures and the fragility of paper, emphasising wear and tear, traces and memory. It is a way of reminding us that everything is vulnerable, imperfect, uncertain and fragile.
Her pictorial work is framed in the search for a language that explores the poetics of the passage of time and the processes of memory and the use of collage connects it to two qualities that are antithetical: its fragility, which is apparent and real, and its capacity to preserve, to eternalise the intangible. It is a working process of construction-destruction, of material manipulation to capture pigmented strata, grafted sediments of colours, torn textures, documents… with the desire for time and memory to merge and disappear.
BETWEEN LINES
by Carme Aliaga
The exhibition ‘Between the lines’ that I am presenting at the Sala Rusiñol includes both my most recent works and those that mark the transition to my current stage. In this exhibition, I explore the city as a metaphor for human complexity, a space in constant construction. Throughout my career, I have investigated themes such as memory, the passage of time and the imprint of urban culture, creating imaginary spaces that transcend physical reality.
In this exhibition I propose new perspectives on the urban fabric, combining collage and paper sheets to generate interactions between architecture and memory. Through these techniques, I create structures and rhythms that expand towards three-dimensionality and abstraction, emphasising the wear, trace and superimposition of different times.
My working process is slow and meticulous, with overlapping layers of paint and intensive use of collage. I use paper as a symbol of fragility and vulnerability, both in urban structures and in the human condition. I seek to reflect the way in which the city is constructed, erased and reconfigured, exploring the tension between resistance and oblivion.
The title ‘between the lines’ invites us to reflect, to go beyond what we see and not to remain in the literalness of the apparent.
