Dora Garcia
Dora García lives and works in Oslo. She often works with film, performance, and theater. Her research focuses on contemporary history, ethics, and politics.
Dora García represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011. Her works have been exhibited internationally in museums and biennials, such as MuHKA, Antwerp; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès, Brussels; Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; Fonderie Darling - Centre d’Arts Visuels, Montreal; FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris; as well as (d)OCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, 2nd Athens Biennial, Lyon Biennial, 29th São Paulo Biennial, and the Gwangju Biennial. This is her first solo show in New York.
Annotated Books series, "Letters from Prison, A. Gramsci", 2022
Copy of Letters from prison by Antonio Gramsci, double book created by annotating the first one, with original notes and drawings by the artists, pencil on paper.
13,5 × 21,5 × 3 cm
Letters of Disappointment / Lettere di disincanto, 2022
Installation with 5 books and 10 handwritten letters 15 × 19 cm each
The Bedbug Timeline, 2022
series of 18 pencil on paper
15 × 19 cm
Mad Marginal Charts (ALP), 2020
wall drawings, pencil on wall paper
The Labyrinth of Female Freedom, 2020
Performance, floor painting, drawing on wall/ drawing on paper and gold object, books
L‘Amour, 2018
original pirate copy of the lecture "L‘Amour" by Jacques Lacan, double book created by annotating the first one, with original notes and drawings by the artists, pencil on paper.
Mad Marginal (Tree), 2018
wall drawings, pencil on wall paper
Odradek, 2018
sound installation and objects
Segunda Vez, 2018
Digital film, colore, 16:9, spagnolo, basco, francese e inglese parlato, sottotitoli in italiano, BE/NO, 94’
Todo Estado es ficticio y todo dinero falso(Every state is fictitious and all money is false), 2018
Golden leaf on wall
Mad Marginal (Moon Trou), 2017
wall drawings, pencil on wall paper
Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years , 2017
performance and floor paintings
Exile, 2013
Documents and objects sent by mail to the institutions exhibiting the work in progress
The Sinthome Score, 2013
performance as the reading and study, in body and voice, of seminar XXIII by Jacques Lacan
I read it with golden fingers (Perec), 2011
gold pigment on book
18 × 9,5 × 0,5 cm
The Inadequate, 2011
Series of performances, conversations, theatre, debates at the Spanish Pavilion (54th Venice Biennale, 2011)
The Deviant Majority, 2010
Digital film, 16:9, color, italian, english and brazilian portuguese spoken, 34’
The Romeos, 2009
Performance and printed matter
Prayers, 2020
performance and online project
The Beggar‘s Opera, 2007
performance at Skulptur projekte münster, 2007
The Locked Room , 2002-12