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MY EVAS.
I started this photographic series in 2019, commemorating the centenary of the birth of a great woman: Mrs. Eva Duarte de Perón.
For reasons that are not only historical, but also personal.

There’s no doubt that Eva Perón was a transcendental Argentinean woman.
Loved or hated, but never forgotten.
She was a milestone in the political history of our nation.

Personally, I think it’s important to mention that I was born on May 7th - as she did.
This is why her image was a part of my childhood, especially on “that day”.
Eva always appeared on magazines, posters, newsreels, books, television, in some city squares, in a corner of a family sideboard.
To my child’s eyes, she was my Queen, Special and Argentinean.
Eva, always beautiful, powerful, radiant, mythological.

As I grew up, I enjoyed watching her being loved and hated.
Eva always represented my rebelliousness.
I never tired of watching documentaries about her, her speeches, and even cried watching her coffin passed by at a parade.
Eva Perón moved me as much today as she did then.
And so I decided to enter her skin, her image, respectfully, with my memories, my experiences, and the intention

Andrea Guedella was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She studied Graphic Design, Social Communication, and Advertising.
She worked as creative director in several agencies, before changing her course and becoming a visual artist.
In 2014 she began to show her photographs first on social networks, art fairs, and group exhibits, and then moving on to museums and personal shows, both nationally and internationally.
In 2018 she created Espacios Disparos, her own study and gallery which she defines as “space to create, produce, and show ideas”.
She also tackles on editorial, advertising, and portrait work under commission.