Iciar Vega de Seoane
Artist, Photography
Spain
“Iciar pursues various states situated between reality and fiction, exploring the very edge of self-portraiture in those bleak zones where the gaze captures more of what is foreign than what is one’s own. As if recognizing oneself in the features before us—features that inevitably resemble those of others—were somehow impossible. In this way, Iciar uses her body as the canvas upon which she portrays waiting, abandonment, and unrest, in a constant escape to nowhere, travelling light, yet laden with emotional burdens. It is a continuous search for emotional acrobatics within an inert body, which, like a found object, alludes to possible escapes that, this time, do speak of ourselves.”
—Mon Magán
Career Highlights
Her work is part of the collection at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo.
2018–2019
– Group exhibition Sororidades Instagramer, Sala de Arte Joven, Comunidad de Madrid.
– Participated in ARTMADRID PROYECTOR with the video L’Indifférence.
– Collaboration with the Rayo Box project and solo exhibition.
– Group exhibition Rayo Box at Galería Siboney, Santander.
2017–2018
– Participated in the Proyector Ten-Year Anniversary Video Art Festival, group exhibition at Tabacalera Promoción del Arte.
– Took part in Proyector Video Art Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca, Mexico.
– Participated in From the Present Body to the Performative Body, Proyector Video Art Festival in Mexico City.
– Selected for Gasoline: Artist Book Encounters, Sala El Águila, Comunidad de Madrid, with the photobook ¿Eres una chica?
2016
– Participated as an exhibiting artist in the Flecha Art Fair.
– Participated in Oblíqua – International Video Art & Experimental Cinema Showcase, Lisbon, Portugal.
2015
– Finalist in the Sony World Photography Awards, Open category.
– Image of the 24th Edition of Flecha Art Fair, also exhibiting artist.
– Selected for the 1st Grant from TAI School.
– Featured on the website Género y Figura, a project promoting women photographers.
– Selected for Fantástico Hombre magazine, issue F.
– Group exhibition at Galería Mediavanced, Gijón.
– Group exhibition at Libros Mellior, Madrid.
– Ephemeral solo exhibition El Hipster Muerto at Berlanga Club, Madrid.
2013–2014
– Group exhibition at Flecha Art Fair.
– Group exhibition Femme, Brooklyn, New York.
– Participated in the Proyector International Video Art Festival 2013, Madrid and Porto, Portugal.
2012
– Winner of the Self-Portrait Contest, EFTI School.
– Participated in the Proyector International Video Art Festival 2012, Madrid and Porto, Portugal.
– Group exhibition with the collective The Collective The Collection, Rosario, Argentina.
– Group exhibition at the Followers Festival, Art Gallery Bat Nam, Tel Aviv, Israel.
– Group exhibition Se Alquila Mercado, Madrid.
