Spanish Vision

Maria jose Gomez Redondo uses appropriations, double exposures and montages to create a dream-like work in which no monsters are allowed. In the series of her photographs in The Spanish Vision, she depicts the five senses, leaving the "sixth" sense to be deduced from these depictions-and the one which forms a part of her technique along with the other, more apparent ones.

"The sense of vision"

"the sense of touch"

"The sense of smell"

"The sense of hearing"

"The sense of taste"

In her first one-person show in December 1990 at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. María José Gómez Redondo (Valladolid 1963) presented two kind of works: allegories of the senses and series of still-lifes with classical connections. Two series which can be taken as premonitory examples of the sort of work she has been developing since then, in which there is an inclination to tell stories mixed with subtle sensuality, translated into images, thanks to a precise control of the onlooker distance. She talks about it when she remembers her beginnings, when she used to paint: "After completing some photographic works in 1987 with Luis Mayo, I became so interested in that medium that I could not abandon it thought I concentrated my interest in photographing photos that I has seen in the press. I was convinced that art was closely related with exercise of learning to watch. I soon realized that not far from the image we see, there is another one, which is less stable, which seems to be moving, and decided to combined them, trying to raise the one which always left behind, hidden"

References:

The Spanish Vision: Contemporary Art Photography 1970-1990