", te quiere, mamá" ARRIVES IN VIENNA AS AN EXHIBITION AT THE ROTLITCH FESTIVAL
After winning the second prize at the Revela-T festival, Bárbara Traver, the author of ", te quiere, mamá", is exhibiting at the MASC gallery in Vienna from November 17th to 26th
Following the EFTI scholarship at the Albarracín Seminar of Photography and Journalism, Bárbara Traver had the opportunity to develop her project , te quiere, mamá.
Since its presentation in 2019, this project has continued to achieve success, winning awards such as the one granted by The Photography Society in the UK and the Revela-T Festival in Spain, where it won the second prize with her photographic project , te quiere, mamá.
Now, this exceptional project arrives in Vienna as part of the Rotlicht Festival directed by Dino Rekanovic. The festival's opening is scheduled for November 17th, where artists, including Bárbara Traver, will present their photographic works.
The next day, on November 18th, the MASC gallery will open its doors at 7:30 pm to showcase , te quiere, mamá to the public. The exhibition will be on display at grundsteingasse 40, 116 WIEN until November 26th
", te quiere, mamá" is a project that explores the relationships between mothers and daughters through different stories and perspectives, inspired by the moving stories that Vivian Gornick shares in her book "Fierce Attachments." Like Gornick, this project aims to explore the complex emotions that arise in these relationships, including closeness, dependence, love, frustration, and pain. The author's goal is to promote greater understanding and empathy towards mothers and daughters worldwide.
In the words of Esther González Gea, art historian and researcher at the University of Valencia: "Bárbara Traver seeks the key between the dichotomy of instilling her daughter with her own values and granting the necessary independence for the creation of the woman she must become. Between love and pain in reconciling the mother-daughter relationship, the artist embarks on the creation of intimate portraits of both, where the yearning to break the bond with the maternal womb simultaneously shows the primal connection to which we are all subjected."
Bárbara Traver López de Ayala
Bárbara Traver (1992) is a photographer and artist based in London, United Kingdom. She studied photography at the Espai d'Art Fotogràfic school and received a scholarship to complete a Master's in Creation and Production in Valencia in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, she received two more scholarships to study contemporary and documentary photography at the EFTI school in Madrid.
Since winning a photography prize in her hometown at the age of 12, Bárbara has been passionate about photography. She has exhibited her work and received international awards, including the Nikon Photo Contest in Japan in 2015, the Albarracín Photojournalism Seminar in 2018, and the IPE 164 The Photography Society Professional Photographer Award in 2022.
Furthermore, her work has been exhibited in prominent venues worldwide, including The Royal Photographic Society in the Arts in Bristol (UK), the CC Pati Llimona in Barcelona, the VII Festival de PhotoAlicante, and We Are Photo in Huelva. In 2021, Bárbara Traver released her dummy photobook and was a finalist in various competitions, such as the Athens Photo Festival, Fiebre Photobook Dummy in Spain, Star Photobook Dummy Award, and Encontros da Imagem in Portugal. Her work has also been featured in magazines such as TELVA, NEO2, and YANMAG.
She draws inspiration from Flemish painting, Japanese culture, and other contemporary photographers, combining these influences with philosophical literary works. Her recurring themes and interests are memory, identity, and autofiction.
Bárbara is known for capturing the idiosyncrasy of the mundane through her photographic style, characterized by its domesticity, blending the intimate and the everyday, the informal and the affectionate.
