RECORTE DE RELATOS

Recorte de relatos is a visual scene which is constructed from selection, painting

and assembly of images produced by news agencies that routinely build social
narratives and their meanings. Reuters, Associated Press (AP), Agence France
Presse (AFP), Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), EFE are indeed producing
organisms that build symbolic actions, "social", as an area of significance in
which each player receives their identity and from which social relations are
established.
Of the many images produced and disseminated globally by these news
agencies, Cecilia Barreto has selected the ones regarding collective protest
actions which have also been used by the entertainment industry and advertising
for being subjected to a series of operations which emphasizes its membership
of a narrative of social conflict. The use of a wall device (which certainly reminds
us of the public nature of the images and iconography of murals themselves) and
the use of painting and drawing to "play" and digital photographic images that
has painted the names of agencies, as well as references to the digital context,
allow you to submit the narrative to different visual conditions of an updated
pictorial realism flows. Cecilia achieved in this way, propose a suitable framework
for the visual presentation of the social as a result of relations of production and
signification in which the interests and strategies of various groups and
institutions involved. Thus, assembly, painting and drawing these images -of
these stories- cuts, the artist allows us to look at the images as part of a complex
balance of power that involves the relationship between narrative, power and
culture.
Blanca Gutierrez Galindo