Vanished
Executio in effigie
The process of making the piece Vanished from the series The Archives of Oblivion involved the collection of vintage photographs of monuments of once illustrious figures, now removed from public view. The artist is interested in the way public statuary has always been used both for its ideological function and for its accessibility.
Her reflection also addresses the transformation of these monuments into witnesses of their own degradation. Cecilia Hurtado’s language consists in a constant effort to link the image to a desire to understand loss and absence, identity and memory, coupled with an aesthetic play on the hidden relationships between a given work and the viewer.
Vanished, from the series The Archives of Oblivion 17 figures from photographs/multiple sources:
statues being removed from public places on XXth century to these days. mobile on wood, 2020-2021.
Cecilia Hurtado (born 1973, MEX, lives and works in Guadalajara) is a visual artist and photographer. Her work is based on strategies of appropriation of images, whether from vernacular, media or institutional archives, and on visual experimentation as a creative process.