The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante presents in this exhibition two works by Eulàlia Valldosera: The Fall. Leaving the Flames to Fall into the Embers from 1996 and Family Ties from 2012.
The Fall is a fundamental work in the artist's trajectory, a complex and enigmatic installation that speaks of an emotional accident, a descent into the underworld, the impossibility of escaping a situation even when attempting different behaviors. The very questioning of a couple in their domestic environment, a story devoid of narration that unfolds in the space where the spectator finds themselves trapped as both witness and architect of the problem.
Family Ties is a series of photographs of intimacy and reveals the visible and hidden emotional relationships that family members experience, enjoy, or suffer. Complex and inevitable implications that redefine the very model of family in continuous transformation. Love, protection, or mutual care becomes tinged with hatred, absence, jealousy, or abuse in a highly fragmented emotional labyrinth.
In both works, the drama is in plain sight. Recovered. The facts are not narrated, but rather represented. Through reality and its shadow, through the projection of light and movement. With her own perspective, Valldosera recreates dramatized scenes that simultaneously reflect presence and absence, memory and desire, where the shadow evokes an inner search that refers to the world of the subconscious, not only as a specter of an unresolved past, but also as an authentic form of reality.
