Sin título [Untitled] (2000)
Lithograph
75 x 55 cm / 82.6 x 63.6 cm framed
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2000.29.1
A humanoid figure, probably female, is surrounded by a system of curved lines and shapes reminiscent of a mesh, a frame or a kind of light cage. This interaction between body and support is characteristic of Salazar, known for giving her works an ironic and critical sense that questions customs and values of the contemporary way of life.
The tension between the figure and its frame dialogues with recurring themes in the artist’s work: female identity, the symbolic mechanisms that limit its representation and the need to question those limits.
The use of printmaking allows the artist to explore structural concepts in a more abstract way, through compositions that shape, sustain, or restrict the body. This approach shows how Salazar moves from physical and sculptural materials, as in her Corsés [Corset] series (1995) or in her Mujer campana [Bell Woman] (1999), to a flat graphic language, maintaining her interest in the human body and critical reflection on its defining symbolic structures.
Dora Salazar Romo (Alsasua, Navarra, 1963) is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work combines sculpture, drawing, engraving, stage design, photography and video. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Basque Country and obtained her PhD in Sculpture. At the start of her artistic career, she worked with recycled materials and waste objects, creating sculptures that explored form and space from the everyday. She later focused her production on the human body, especially on the female figure, addressing identity and the symbolic mechanisms that limit its depiction. Salazar’s pieces are characterised by their visual lightness and great symbolic impact, where the bodies seem to be supported by frames, meshes or frameworks that allude both to physical containment and to their defining social structure.