Laura Romero, Madrid (Spain) 1976. Bachelor in Fine Arts. Laura is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, photography, performance, installation, and recently started with ceramic sculpture.
Her international participation has been outstanding, appearing in art fairs from Hamburg to Istanbul and Paris. Both her individual and her collective work have been exhibited around the world.
“I consider my work to be quite intimate. Under the scope of my own experiences, I elaborate a story about everyday life, I expose situations we all face day to day. My intention is to bait the audience into taking a second, closer, look; it is an invitation to reflect on everything that goes by in our journey unnoticed.” – Laura Romero
Examples of her work:
Laura Romero has a specific style of work ‘Intervals’ where she takes photos of buildings and photoshops them together in a creative way. I have chosen this artist because of how her photos are presented through the way of combing multiple buildings to create one artistic image.
“I have been working with the city for several years. Questioning the territory in which I live and building a new identity, my identity.”
Laura also has a different style of photography named ‘Confinement Diaries’ which is a pretty similar styles as her ‘Intervals’ but instead each image involves some sort of nature such as, leaves, a tree, and branches.
Examples of Confinement Diaries by Laura Romero
In my opinion, I prefer the Intervals topic rather than the Confinement Diaries because it helps understand the topic of Anthropocene through the presentation of such structures and buildings. For my mock exam I am going to try and create images inspired by Laura Romeros intervals work through photoshop.
Image analysis:
This image by Laura Romero is very interesting to me. The main focus of the image is the multiple buildings combined to make one mysterious structure. As you can see, most of the buildings involved throughout the image are presented in black and white with only 2 or 3 buildings displaying colour. The use of a tiny bit of colour makes the image more attractive and vibrant to impress the viewers which represents the idea of Anthropocene. Also, the buildings on the top are not positioned upside down, however there is one building on the bottom half that is positioned upside down to create a peculiar view.