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And for how long do you think we can keep this goddamn coming and going?
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Tinder is a personal vision of romantic relationships in today’s world.
To explore this concept, I build monochromatic red sets in which a male model and I enact a performance. This gives me the opportunity to probe the limits and expressions of my own body, allowing it to interact with an imagined, symbolic, and yet everyday environment that bears parallels with my personal life.
The images, with a tinge of the surreal, inject some humor into reflections on romantic bonds in the era of constant consumption in which priority is given to the disposable. We consume objects, fashion, experiences, and people. We want to try everything and try it NOW!
I once read an interview in which a journalist asked an elderly couple, “What is the secret to staying together for 65 years?” The woman answered, “We were born at a time when if something broke, you fixed it; you didn’t throw it away.”
AUTHOR
Viky García was born in 1980 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
From a young age, she has lived periodically in the United States, Spain, southeast Asia, Italy and Australia.
García studied photography, video, art therapy, Butoh and experimental theater in Barcelona and New York, among other cities. Her art today draws on all of these disciplines, adapting them to each project. Her work has been featured in festivals, art magazines and international exhibitions, in addition to solo shows that combine photography, installation, and performance, in New York and Barcelona.
She currently lives in Ibiza.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 VIKY GARCIA: TEXTILE COLLAGES, NINBELLA ART GALLERY, Bangalow, Australia
2016 MOTHER’S MILK , GALERÍA CONTRAST, Barcelona.
2015 MOTHER’S MILK , SUBJECT_ [gallery], NYC
2004 VIKY GARCÍA, JVG ESPACIO GALLERY, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS + FESTIVALS
2025 PREMIO FONDAZIONE AMEDEO MODIGLIANI, Rome
2020 EXHIBITION OF SPANISH ARTISTS IN QATAR. ART &CULTURE WITHOUT BORDERS FOUNDATION. Doha
2016 DIFFUSION GROUP SHOW, SMITH GALLERY. Texas, USA
2014 ELECTIVE AFFINITIES, INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY.NYC
2013 REGARDS FESTIVAL. Perpignan, France
2012 BAC FESTIVAL, BLOW GALLERY. Barcelona, Spain
AWARDS:
2024 WINNER SCULPTURE , AMEDEO MODIGLIANI FOUNDATION AWARDS, ROME
2018 FINE ART PHOTO AWARDS: Conceptual 3rd place winner.
