Arta Delharte

Statement

My body of work encompasses an undisciplined, appropriationist, and Conceptual practice. Examining the blind spots of a sector that promotes progressive values yet remains subjected to market dynamics, I seek to explore the intersection between the pictorial and the digital.

My artistic practice addresses themes such as the transcendence of pictorial connotative codes, the instability of meaning in language, permanent connectivity regimes, speed, the “crashed” society, the Internet, the role of new generations who are more uninformed than ever despite having more access to information, and the problematic pictorial references we have inherited in the category of “geniuses”.

Through different media, I seek to free the spectator from the duty-free zone and the romanticized vision of the artist, inviting them to a reflective contemplation — without a supplement of dignity. In this process, I use error, interference, and discontinuity as strategies of resistance against the inertia of visual language.

Despite everything mentioned, I would like to emphasize that everything concerning my practice originates from the pictorial. For me, painting is neither a device of mimesis nor of technical virtuosity. It is the residue of a language prior to its semantic domestication, a system of signs in which the possibility of meaning is always on the verge of disappearance.

It is not bound to established codes or the need for explanation; it is an autonomous language that resists categorization. As Jacques Derrida said,”Language never says exactly what we want it to say”, but painting does.

GlogauAIR Project

“COMO NO HEMOS ENCONTRADO LA SALIDA, HE HABILITADO UNA VENTANA” (SINCE WE HAVEN’T FOUND THE EXIT, I SET UP A WINDOW)

During my stay at GlogauAIR, my intention is to continue the line of research I developed in my last exhibition, FAKETORIES, particularly with the video collaboration with Dolorcica, titled “La Última Película del Mundo” (The Last Movie on Earth), and to further explore the concept of THINKING ABOUT THE EXIT. I propose the installation of a slide emerging from the building’s window. This project would serve as a starting point for exploring connectivity systems, drawing analogies between the conduit and the slide, and addressing ambivalences such as the perception of ‘play’ versus ‘work.’ The meanings that emerge will undoubtedly be endless, exploring the image of the slide as a playful conduit and the space of play as an extension of artistic experience and reflection. (I would like to emphasize that these are the first strokes of a work that may transform and adapt).

CV Summary

Education

• 2018 — 2023 University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Cuenca, ES — BA in Fine Arts.
• 2018 Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts (UAL), London, UK — Fashion Folio Foundation (Stage 1).

Extracurricular Courses

• 2024 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES — Course: Artists’ Figures. From Bohemia to Stardom.
• 2022 MACBA Artists’ Lab, Barcelona, ES — Between Action and Object.

Exhibitions

• 2025
  • Hybria, collective show, curated by Motherlode collective, Zurich, CH
• 2024
  • Montones de Mantequilla, Duo show with Adela Angulo Portugal, Madrid, ES
  • FAKETORIES, Solo show, Chaiz Studio curated by Arturo Fernández, Madrid, ES
• 2023
  • Performance by the 1/4 collective at the inauguration of the XIX Artists Meeting of the Amelia Moreno Foundation. El Dorado Art Space curated by David Cohn. Toledo, ES
  • Solo show of the Final Thesis ARTA DEL ARTE, UCLM, Cuenca, ES
  • Untitled (Something that doesn’t allow itself to be seen), Solo show, UCLM, Cuenca, ES
• 2022
  • Sala de Despiece, solo show, UCLM, Cuenca, ES
  • Upload it to TikTok, collective show curated by Antolín Murcia at UCLM, Cuenca. Cubículo, collective show, Madrid, ES
  • Alqvimia, collective show, Espacio Naranjo, Madrid, ES
• 2021
  • Emerging Emergency, collective show, in collaboration with Phase Collective, Madrid, ES
  • Collective show at Casa Balandra curated by Mercedes Kerch & Gabriela Caulonga, Mallorca, ES
  • Natalia López de la Oliva, Alex Eiffel, Sofía López Briales y Adela Angulo Portugal, collective show, UCLM, Cuenca, ES
  • And you, how do you feel?, collective show, curated by Maya Alarcón Watson, UCLM, Cuenca, ES
• 2020
  • Horror Vacui, collective show, Espacio Kanoko, Cuenca, ES

Relevant Experience

• 2023 Gallery Assistant — Gratin Gallery, New York, NY

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