The Lázaro Galdiano Museum hosts the exhibition ‘Mater Oblatio’, a reflection on the motherhood of Soledad Córdoba

The Ministry of Culture has inaugurated this Thursday in the Lazaro Galdiano Museum the exhibition ‘Mother Offering’ by Soledad Córdoba, in which the artist’s self-portraits enter into dialogue with the Flemish paintings in the museum’s collection to evoke the relationship established between a mother and her son.

As the artist explained, it is a multidisciplinary project in which, through different plastic languages ​​(photography, video, drawing and installation), “a visual song of feelings and mixed emotions“.

Thus, Córdoba proposes a construction of motherhood that “transcends the archetypal ideas of the maternal and protective“, to include other aspects such as “exhaustion, burdens, fears, losses or identities that appear and disappear in the parenting process.”

The exhibition, organised by the Subdirectorate General of State Museums, is part of the work line of promoting contemporary art, and will be on view until 24 November 2024.

Solitude Cordoba (Avilés, 1977) is an artist whose training and artistic research has been supported through scholarships such as residencies in Paris (Cité Internationale Universitaire de París), London (TATE Britain, The Hyman Kreitman Research Centre) and awards such as the first prize for Photography El Cultural from the newspaper El Mundo, the first prize for Plastic Arts from the UCM Foundation or the third prize for photography from the Enaire Foundation.

His work has been shown in Individual and collective exhibitions at international and national levelamong which stand out King Juan Carlos I Center New York University (USA), Nagasaki Prefectural Museum (Japan), Silk Road Gallery Tehran (Iran), the Cervantes Institute of Chicago, Albuquerque, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Bucharest, Belgrade, Tetouan, Fez, Rabat and the White House, the Spanish Embassy in Washington DC (USA), Niemeyer Center (Avilés), Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias (Oviedo), Barjola Museum and Laboral Art Center (Gijón).