Emotional Architecture Exhibition – The Journey Of A Mijas Artist

Mixed-media creator Celia Jiménez, a caller good arts postgraduate from Mijas, presents her debut solo exhibition, Emotional Archaeology, astatine nan Casa de la Cultura de Las Lagunas.

The exhibition, which runs until August 18, explores Jiménez’s individual travel to reclaim her family’s humanities representation and its heavy relationship to nature.

Inspired by her parents’ agrarian upbringing, Jiménez began investigating nan infinitesimal erstwhile humanity drifted from surviving successful harmony pinch earthy cycles. “My parents grew up successful nan countryside and mountains, eating tomatoes aliases peppers only erstwhile they were successful season. That measurement of life fascinated me,” she says. This curiosity led her to attraction connected her mother’s puerility home, sparking nan first bid of photographs featured successful nan exhibition.

The task took a profoundly individual move pursuing nan passing of some her parents. “I mislaid my mother during my studies and later my father. Their ashes remainder astatine that house. Initially, I went location to photograph, bringing flowers arsenic 1 would to a cemetery. I experimented pinch composition, flowers, and objects taken retired of context, and that’s really nan first bid was born,” Jiménez explained.

From there, Jiménez restored nan family home, unearthing objects that became integral to nan exhibition. “I allowed myself to play nan domiciled of an archaeologist—hence nan title, Emotional Archaeology. I documented everything arsenic if I were an archaeologist, starring to different series, crowned by 2 ample photos showing nan location arsenic it stands today,” she said.

The accumulation offers a poignant look astatine nan past done a modern lens. Visitors tin acquisition Emotional Archaeology astatine nan Casa de la Cultura de Las Lagunas until August 18, successful Calle San Valentín, 5, Las Lagunas de Mijas.