Dora García
Spain
Artist and researcher focused on the parameters and conventions of art-presentation, questions of time (real or fictional) and the limits between representation and reality. In 2011 she represented Spain at the Venice Biennale, presenting The Inadequate; she presented the performance and installation project entitled The Sinthome Score, based on a transcription of Lacan’s “23rd Seminar,” entitled “Le Sinthome,” at the 56th biennial in 2015. As a reference in her recent work, she discovered Lacan through the psychoanalyst and philosopher’s own work on James Joyce, whom she has reflected on in works such as her film, The Joycean Society (2013). She is currently researching Oscar Masotta and the notion of repetition; her ongoing project, El café de las voces—begun in Hamburg in 2014—continues to be presented in different cities. García participated in the Munster Sculpture Projects (2007), the Sydney Biennial (2008) dOCUMENTA 13 (2012) and the Gwangju Biennial (2016). She is professor of contemporary art at the Oslo Art Academy and at HEAD Genève, as well as a faculty member at PEI, Barcelona. Alongside M. Villeneuve and A. Baudelot, she has served as co-director at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers from 2013 to 2018.