Ángel de la Rubia

‘BiH’

Ten years after the dismemberment of the old Yugoslavia, thousands of families, crippled into a primitivism from years before, survive in a world of humdrum routines. Communities live in isolation, illustrating not the map of a country, but an illusion.

Àngel de la Rubia has travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to get to know a country which, as a child watching television, he witnessed breaking up. There he discovered that everything which has been written is insufficient to describe the reality. His own images, therefore, brought together in the project ‘BiH’ are incomplete, unable to decipher the displacement or inertia he witnessed. Is work has a hopeful approach, wanting to give some meaning to the sense of distance and recurring defeat.

Background

Vigo, Spain, 1981

Àngel de la Rubia studied Artistic Photography at Oviedo School of Arts. Since 2006 he has shown in different exhibitions, both individual and collective. The most recent are the collectives 'Here, 4 photographers from Madrid', with the series ‘Round Granny’, at the Canal Isabel II (January 2009), ‘Urban Topographies’, at the Fúcares Gallery in Almagro, and ‘Temptations' the collective exhibition which formed part of the Estampa Fair in 2007. In 2008, he exhibited ‘After all’ with Iván Grubanov, commissioned by Tania Pardo for Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, in March 2008.

Àngel de la Rubia has received various prizes. In 2008 he received a creative grant Primera obra, given by Caixa Galicia for the project ‘KS’. In 2007 he published La Fosa de Valdediós at the Museum of Pueblo de Asturias in collaboration with Pedro de la Rubia.