Clara Carvajal (Madrid, 1970)

Visual artist

Graduate of the School of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, the Blake College and the Heatherley School of London.

“IN MY WORK THE MESSAGE IS THE IDIOM” I am an artist who studied sculpture and I now concern myself with the cultural processes and languages of the Mediterranean and the Near East. My approach leads to the development of an artistic dialogue with different idioms in order to show how the common bases of social communication processes are reflected in civilizations that are far from each other both in time and place. These forms vary from ordinary images to digital technology and geometric graphic scenarios, which I treat as coded elements of communication that are transmitted through social consciousness and the personal unconscious. (Clara Carvajal).

In 1993 she won first prize, the “Ayllón Scholarship”, awarded by the Complutense University of Madrid in Segovia. She has since won many prizes among which the most recent and most notable, in 2017, the subsidy of the program Aid to Creation of the Municipality of Madrid. Other awards include the Endjavi-Barbé Art Projects, the Ses Voltes Center d'Árt and the Creació Palma for the development of a project in Shiraz, Iran in 2014. She also won first prize in the Sculpture Biennial of Valladolid in 2007. The competition “Generation” of Caja Madrid chose one of her works in 2005 and in 2009 she was selected to participate in the workshop Yannis Kounelis organized by the Botín Foundation in Villa Iris.

The Alcalá 31 space of the Municipality of Madrid exhibited her work at “Here and Now” (2010) and previously at the Network of Young People’s Art, Red de Art Joven (2000).The Casa Encendida (House on Fire) hosted Generation 2005. In recent years she exhibited at the Arabic House of Madrid and Cordova, at the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, at the Raúl Anguiano Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico, at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tetuán, Marocco, at the Lucarini Palace in Trevi, Italy and the Kaskadenkondensator, Warthek in Basel, Switzerland.  For more information on the artist and her work: https://www.claracarvajal.com