Veru ICHÉ elaborates photographs from personal texts based on time, on memory, on the recreation of things recalled, abandoned objects and spaces no longer inhabited.
The choice of an object is not something that is randomly done: it requires that the object can evoke the intuition of a story and provoke in the artist the need to initiate a process of listening and interaction through which the object can continue to irradiate scenes and motives that will allow it to be reborn in a new story. The work she does with people starts from the object found, or from the clothing those people will wear for the photographs. Very much like a medium, Iché works with body language and the emotional weight transmitted to her by objects and models, elaborating concatenated events that revolve around a constant -object or character- and which refuse to be submitted to the trappings of syntax or closure, thereby rejecting the ruthless linearity of time, to reassert themselves within eternal narrative suspension.
Iché's photography evokes, with extraordinary power, the timeless dimension of the subconscious and the eternal return of day-to-day disquiet, which leads directly back to Freudian studies about the dark and sinister side of our daily life. “I don’t work on pre-concepts or on fixed, direct concepts. I work on plastic information that is meant to gradually unravel within the subconscious of the observer, and make him complicit to something unknown. That is the reason I don’t usually show the literature that has informed the birth of my photographs: to avoid the presence of additional data that could bias reading, and, consequently, make it difficult for everything that finds any form of abode within my work to have the opportunity to acquire a new life, transformed within another imaginary.”
Her creation process was recreated in El niño escrito, a theatre musical developed in collaboration with José Puigserver, in which Iche's texts and scenes are fused in a choral attempt to bring to the audience the true inner dimension of her work.
Iché received the Jury Prize at the Bienal de Arte Joven of Mar del Plata (Argentina, 1998); the Premio MadridFoto (2012) and The Ivory Press Publication/Acquisition Scholarship (Madrid/London, 2009).
Her work has been exhibited at Centro Cultural Museo Auditorium (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1999 and 2000); Museo Villa Victoria Ocampo (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2003); Centro Cultural Cortázar (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2003); Gallería Doppia V (Lugano, Switzerland, 2005 and 2010); Art Studio (La Nit del Art, Palma, 2008); Waka/Espacio Expositivo Independiente (Palma, 2009); Galería Blanca Berlín (Madrid, 2009 and 2012); Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Stampa (Galería Blanca Berlín, Madrid, 2009, 2010); Sa Taronja Centro Cultural (Andratx, Mallorca, 2009); Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Madrid Foto (Galería Blanca Berlín, Madrid, 2010 and 2011); Langhans Galerie (Prague, Czech Republic, 2011); PINTA The Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show (Galería Blanca Berlín); Earls Court Exhibition Centre (London, 2011); White Lodge (Hollywood, USA, 2012); Ses Voltes (La Nit de l'Art, Palma, 2012); Centro Cultural Contemporáneo Pelaires (Palma, 2013); Festival PalmaPhoto (Galería Pelaires, Palma, 2013) and Feria Internacional de Arte ARCO Madrid (2013 and 2014).
For her collaboration in RE-ACTION, she departed from a fragment of Retrato con sangre y libélulas I, by Alonso y Marful, and allowed the image to gradually evolve in her mind until she found five imaginary enclaves for the character.
Veru Iché lives and works in Majorca (Spain).
The choice of an object is not something that is randomly done: it requires that the object can evoke the intuition of a story and provoke in the artist the need to initiate a process of listening and interaction through which the object can continue to irradiate scenes and motives that will allow it to be reborn in a new story. The work she does with people starts from the object found, or from the clothing those people will wear for the photographs. Very much like a medium, Iché works with body language and the emotional weight transmitted to her by objects and models, elaborating concatenated events that revolve around a constant -object or character- and which refuse to be submitted to the trappings of syntax or closure, thereby rejecting the ruthless linearity of time, to reassert themselves within eternal narrative suspension.
Iché's photography evokes, with extraordinary power, the timeless dimension of the subconscious and the eternal return of day-to-day disquiet, which leads directly back to Freudian studies about the dark and sinister side of our daily life. “I don’t work on pre-concepts or on fixed, direct concepts. I work on plastic information that is meant to gradually unravel within the subconscious of the observer, and make him complicit to something unknown. That is the reason I don’t usually show the literature that has informed the birth of my photographs: to avoid the presence of additional data that could bias reading, and, consequently, make it difficult for everything that finds any form of abode within my work to have the opportunity to acquire a new life, transformed within another imaginary.”
Her creation process was recreated in El niño escrito, a theatre musical developed in collaboration with José Puigserver, in which Iche's texts and scenes are fused in a choral attempt to bring to the audience the true inner dimension of her work.
Iché received the Jury Prize at the Bienal de Arte Joven of Mar del Plata (Argentina, 1998); the Premio MadridFoto (2012) and The Ivory Press Publication/Acquisition Scholarship (Madrid/London, 2009).
Her work has been exhibited at Centro Cultural Museo Auditorium (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1999 and 2000); Museo Villa Victoria Ocampo (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2003); Centro Cultural Cortázar (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2003); Gallería Doppia V (Lugano, Switzerland, 2005 and 2010); Art Studio (La Nit del Art, Palma, 2008); Waka/Espacio Expositivo Independiente (Palma, 2009); Galería Blanca Berlín (Madrid, 2009 and 2012); Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Stampa (Galería Blanca Berlín, Madrid, 2009, 2010); Sa Taronja Centro Cultural (Andratx, Mallorca, 2009); Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Madrid Foto (Galería Blanca Berlín, Madrid, 2010 and 2011); Langhans Galerie (Prague, Czech Republic, 2011); PINTA The Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show (Galería Blanca Berlín); Earls Court Exhibition Centre (London, 2011); White Lodge (Hollywood, USA, 2012); Ses Voltes (La Nit de l'Art, Palma, 2012); Centro Cultural Contemporáneo Pelaires (Palma, 2013); Festival PalmaPhoto (Galería Pelaires, Palma, 2013) and Feria Internacional de Arte ARCO Madrid (2013 and 2014).
For her collaboration in RE-ACTION, she departed from a fragment of Retrato con sangre y libélulas I, by Alonso y Marful, and allowed the image to gradually evolve in her mind until she found five imaginary enclaves for the character.
Veru Iché lives and works in Majorca (Spain).