Diana Larrea interferes with public spaces, attracting the attention of accidental viewers and taking them out of their daily routines. In her acts, there seems to be a common ground for public and cinematographic elements: real fantasies or fictitious realities.

This way she establishes a very direct contact with an audience who might not be specialized in art, but ends up having to exercise a certain degree of criticism.

Furnishing a square in Madrid with synthetic grass, in a neighbourhood that typically lacks green areas: reality or fiction? Or the appearance of hundreds of plastic crows on the emblematic Casa de América building in Madrid: reality or fiction?

Actions of great plasticity, which compiled in photographs and videos, create the artistic object. In the series “Olympia in San Francisco” (2005) the artist plays tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and she goes about the same places that the film’s main character did dressed in the same way. In this sense, once again, she establishes an open dialogue between fiction and reality.

Manuela Villa

Emerging Art in Spain

Editorial Vaivén