Cristina Iglesias

The sculpture of Cristina Iglesias (born San Sebastián, 1956) avoids a frontal view of the pedestal and appropriates spaces in which it can be observed from a wide variety of viewpoints. We can see this in the installation created specifically for the passageway linking the two buildings of the Hortensia Herrero Art Centre, where visitors come across a series of mirrors which multiply its depth and in which they can see their images reflected, leading them to isolate themselves and to forget that they are in the very heart of the city. The point is that Cristina Iglesias’s installations are not aggressive, but welcoming; they invite us to get inside them and explore both the work and ourselves in depth. In the artist’s own words: ‘this piece presents a dreamlike world, very close to science fiction in its physical appearance, with elements that have a stony texture and appearances of organisms that you don’t quite recognize, and then all this world of reflections, of mirrors, places where you can’t enter and others where you can. I hope viewers will feel they are in another world, that this passage from one place to another will be a passage into a special, dreamlike world, and that it can remind you in turn of things you have seen in nature.’