Victoria Cabezas Green (born 1950), is an American photographer, conceptual artist and multimedia artist who has developed her production in Costa Rica. [1]
Victoria Cabezas was born in the United States, but was raised and educated in Costa Rica, and later attended the Pratt Institute in New York City and Florida State University. [1] Her areas of specialization in the visual arts are in printmaking, photography, and work with objects, studying each of these disciplines and incorporating them into her artistic practice. She has also taught design and photography at the School of Plastic Arts of the University of Costa Rica, where she served as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts from 1991 to 1995. [1]
Solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at the Mexican Council of Photography, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of Costa Rica. She has also exhibited in group shows in the United States, Spain, France, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Peru. [2]
Cabezas's work revolves around “experimenting with photographic language, as well as investigating the elements of Costa Rican religiousness and its representations in the quotidian sphere.” [3] The use of a kitsch aesthetic is evident in much of Cabezas’ work, and manifested in the “record of private spaces, loaded with cultural meaning through objects, which in turn refer to other more complex, temporal and symbolic social systems.” [3] Another recurring issue in her artistic research is the problem of tropicality experienced and understood from the perspective of Central America. [4] This particular subject is addressed by through her use of banana imagery, seen as the visual icon par excellence to denote the socioeconomic exploitation suffered by the isthmus in the past. [5] The use of the image of bananas in object assemblages also led the artist to make her first works related to the art-object in the region during the eighties. [3] Cabezas’ other artistic concerns revolve around personal memory, the relationship between the viewer and the work, and questions about discourse and the codes of contemporary art in general.
2000 - La Historia Oficial. Assemblage (documents, Coca-Cola bottles, donuts, fabric, frame, digital photography, acrylic sheets). 282 x 412 cm
1973- Banana Thesis. Copy her MFA thesis at Florida State University. 21.59 x 27.94 cm.
1998 - Detalle del portal de doña Antonia Mora. Color photograph with colloidal silver (framed). 50 x 60 cm.
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