MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban photographer Marta María Pérez Bravo recently inaugurated her exhibition “Mythologies” in the La Caja gallery, in Madrid, where it will be open to the public until September 1, 2023 as part of the twenty-sixth edition of the prestigious PhotoEspaña International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, as reported Rialta Magazine.
According to this medium, Pérez Bravo has established his name in the artistic field with a unique approach, focusing his attention on the myths and superstitions derived from the Cuban religion and its influences associated with Caribbean-African Santeria. Black-and-white photographs of him explore a multitude of themes, from motherhood to the divinity of everyday life, and represent both his spiritual journey and his unique view of the world.
“The author photographs familiar objects such as clothing, tree branches, and animals to express the divine nature of all things. Her images tend to express her own spiritual path, documenting her progress through abstractions and dreams”, explain the organizers of PhotoEspaña.
The artist has changed the direction of Cuban photography since her arrival on the scene in the mid-1980s, opting for a more symbolic and allegorical image instead of a documentary. Pérez Bravo has managed to continually renew herself, exploring other formats and mechanisms of representation without abandoning the themes that have motivated her since the beginning of it.
The works presented in “Mythologies” reflect the photographer’s fidelity to her style and her impressive ability to remain contemporary, organically dialoguing with the current era. “The carefully elaborated photographs of this woman are the result of an intense expressive experience that, without ever renouncing the issues that have motivated and nourished her authorship from a very young age, she has known how to renew herself,” he points out. Rialta Magazine.
Pérez Bravo’s images invite the viewer to a syncretic and dreamlike ritual. The female body, cultural tradition, popular cults and religions are intertwined to create an immersion in the subjectivity of the artist. “The creative exceptionality of the artist also resides in the visual forcefulness of her images. The visual design has an elegance and a care of classic shades, and the lighting management, expressionist”, adds Rialta Magazine.
