Ana Pastor Spain
Ana Pastor is a Spanish multi-disciplinary artist deeply interested in existentialism, identity and emotion. Her research on these issues is based on physical, biological and psychological traits, using the human body as a reference and starting point for materialisation in a work. Her research is currently focused on sustainable materials in the artwork and on the intersection of art and science
Ana has participated in international solo and group shows, including Nothing To See Here in La Calcografia Gallery, Salamanca, Mouvement des Corps in Chapel du Carmel Showroom, Rouen, France. Susak Expo Biennale, Croatia.(2016) Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives. Syg.ma. Rusia. Glitch, the Aesthetics of Failure, The Old Courts Gallery, Wigan, UK. Deep Trash: Royal Trash. Exhibition, live art event & symposium. London. UK. Isthisit?, Platform for contemporary art, UK.(2017) Perspectives. Art, Inflammation & Me, Strandzuid. Amsterdam. El pelotón de ejecución. Espacio Trapezio. Madrid.(2014) Selected art grants and residencies include Arte en la Casa Bardin in 2022, Continuitas Grant, MH University in 2021, PLUS Residency. Museum of the University of Alicante in 2019 and A Quemarropa Residency in 2014. She has earned international art awards, including the EAC Contemporary Art Prize. Juan Gil-Albert Culture Institute (2015). I Art and Diseases Prize of the Chair of Art and Diseases of the University of Valencia (2014). Medal of Honor. Open Art Competition. Light, Space and Time Gallery. Florida. USA (2011). 1st Prize. Fine Arts Competition “The Elements”. Light, Space and Time Gallery. Florida. USA. (2011) She has given lectures at CasaPlanas Investigació Artística i Cultura Contemporània (2021), the conferences cycle "I International Sustainable Art Conference ", Complutense University of Madrid (2020), and in the conferences cycle "Divulgarte", Blood and art, University of Alicante (2018) among others. Her work is in private and institutional collections including the Council of Chiva. Valencia, Spain. The Juan Gil-Albert Foundation, Spain. Council of Bois-Guillaume, Rouen, France. ABBVIE, Inc., Biopharmaceutical Company.
Artwork
Weareone, 2022
Projects and exhibitions
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Weareone22/03/2020 — ongoing Series of oversized photographs taken from Petri dishes that show the changes in the microbial footprint of some individuals after having a contact. Some of them are taken during the confinement and some after it. Example: Digital photography on cotton paper, numbered limited edition of 10, 70 cm in diameter. Human mouth microbiota before... [Read more] |
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Interbeing20/09/2019 — 10/11/2019 INTERBEING works with the microbiome, the set of microorganisms that populate our body. INTERBEING reveals the human being as a dynamic and interactive community of human and microbial cells which influence our lives to unexpected limits, questioning a traditional description of identity as an independent unit consequently giving a new meaning... [Read more] |
Exhibition at the Alicante University Museum, Alicante | Details |
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Deepness13/09/2018 — 29/09/2018 Scanning Electron Microscope photos of my dried freeze blood, variable mesures. |
Yo, Ana, I. The Back Room Gallery, London | Details |
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Still Life29/04/2015 — 25/07/2015 Still Life is a contemporary vanitas which highlights the transience, the fragility and the changeability of existence. It corresponds to the phase of the acceptance of the trauma in the mourning process, as described in the Developmental Psychology. It consists of a transparent urn with my body’s same width and length measurements. One of... [Read more] |
Contemporary Art Encounters, Culture Institute Juan-Gil Albert, Spain. | Details |
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Perfectly Normal08/10/2014 — 15/10/2014 Perfectly Normal. Badges, dispenser, poster, variable measurements Work done for The IMID Art Project of AbbVie Pharmaceutical and the Chair of Art and Disease of the UPV to make psoriasis and other autoimmune diseases visible . Interviews with patients revealed that their greatest concern was social rejection, due to the revulsion caused by... [Read more] |
Perspectives. Art, Inflammation & me. RAI Congress Center. Strandzuid., Amsterdam | Details |