Projects

2024

Keep Going

Keep Going, digital video 4'27", 2024

Todas esas manos, collage on colour print, 21 × 15 cm, 2024

Vase Mochica, embroidered paper on print, 21 × 15 cm, 2024

Vase Mochica verso, embroidered paper on print, 21 × 15 cm, 2024

Soulignage (Miriam Cahn), embroidered paper on print and pencil on paper, 22 × 31 cm, 2024

Soulignage (Emanuele Coccia), embroidered paper on print and pencil on paper, 22 × 31 cm, 2024

Soulignage (Marie-José Mondzain), embroidered paper on print and pencil on paper, 22 × 31 cm, 2024

Soulignage, pencil on paper, 31 × 22 cm, 2024

Study (Rineke Dijktra), watercolor on paper, 26 × 18 cm, 2024

Study (vase Mochica), watercolor on paper, 26 × 18 cm, 2024

Study (Sculpture Azteca), watercolor on paper, 26 × 18 cm, 2024

Study (Frida Kahlo), watercolor on paper, 26 × 18 cm, 2024

Study (Louise Bourgeois), collage on printed paper, 21 × 15 cm, 2024

Exhibition 2024

I dwell in Possibility, Losange espace d'exposition d'art contemporain, Brussels, Belgium
→  artlosange.com/...

For this project, a first line of thought focuses on the research of representation of childbirth in art history. In Western art, nativity scenes are abundant, but not representations of childbirth. In nativity scenes, the painters' perspective is influenced by theological thought that denaturalized birth and the image of motherhood. However, in pre-Columbian cultures in Central and South America, the moment of birth is represented, particularly in sculptures. Twentieth-century and contemporary women artists have explored this theme in relation to the issues in their works. Thus Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Rineke Dijkstra, Miriam Cahn, among others, look into this subject and offer images of it.

I then decided to watch for the first time the video recording of my eldest daughter's birth, a video that has accompanied me for twenty years, and to create a project with it.

My intention is to honor the community of women - midwifes - that helped and encouraged me during delivery and to express the power of life and its transformation, but not only in relation to motherhood, but also in any act of creation. Making this video has brought to light the issue of the impact of motherhood on my artistic career, and that of women artists in general, which I think is still dominated by a patriarchal way of producing and circulating works, even if things are changing.

01/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Keep Going, video

02/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Keep Going, video

03/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Todas esas manos, collage on colour print, 21 × 15 cm, 2024

04/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Vase Mochica, embroidered paper on print, 21 × 15 cm, 2024

05/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Vase Mochica verso, embroidered paper on print, 21 × 15 cm, 2024

06/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Soulignage (Miriam Cahn), embroidered paper on print and pencil on paper, 22 × 31 cm, 2024

07/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Soulignage (Emanuele Coccia), embroidered paper on print and pencil on paper, 22 × 31 cm, 2024

08/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Soulignage (Marie-José Mondzain), embroidered paper on print and pencil on paper, 22 × 31 cm, 2024

09/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Soulignage, pencil on paper, 31 × 22 cm, 2024, view from I dwell in Possibility exhibition

10/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Study (Rineke Dijktra), watercolor on paper, 26 × 18 cm, 2024

11/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Study (Vase Mochica), watercolor on paper, 26 × 18 cm, 2024

12/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Study (Sculpture Azteca), watercolor on paper, 26 × 18 cm, 2024

13/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Study (Frida Kahlo), watercolor on paper, 26 × 18 cm, 2024

14/14Natalia Blanch, project Keep Going

Study (Louise Bourgeois), collage on printed paper, 21 × 15 cm, 2024