Charo Garaigorta b. 1961

For Charo, drawing is both a discipline and a necessity: a way of observing herself thinking, of engaging in a dialectic with herself. It becomes a means of detecting and educating herself through her ideas, feelings, and mistakes. More than ever, Soliloquies exists as both that space and that practice of drawing.

She is interested in retroactive self-absorption: looking and looking, observing and questioning, silently dialoguing with herself through the repetition of infinite strokes. That repetition provokes a precognitive dialectic followed by revisitation, a process of reordering and diagnosis in which she places herself under the influence of her own work.

She has exhibited at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao; Casa de America, Madrid; Antonio Barnola Gallery, Barcelona; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, New York; Parker’s Box, Art in General, and The Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York; Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil; San Sebastian Aquarium, San Sebastian; La Taller, Bilbao; CDAN (Center for Art and Nature), Huesca; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; and the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum.