Since childhood Noemi Ottamendi has had an insistent impulse to produce
images of horses. It is a subject matter that has occured repeatedly in her
work as artist and which she returns to in this exhibition. The work in
'Kaballes' is concerned directly with the compelling nature of fascination
itself.
Otamendi's photographic work is the creative opportunity to think of
ourselves outside our personal identity. The horse is explored and
displayed as the 'opposite', the non-human subject, appearinglike an
imagined mythical beast.
In these large-scale photographs, Ottamendi focuses on details; eyes,
nostrils, the tops of limbs; framing them in extreme close up. Body parts
are abstracted and the subject is created in an exercise of re-assembling
the fragments. The effect is disorientating. the works are displyed in
groups of twos and threes, creating a sense of fractured movement. She
causes us to consider the strangeness of this animal and our relationship
to it.
Noemi Ottamendi was born in La Coruna, Spain. She studied Fine Arts at the
University of Pantevedra and after gaining a 'Fundacio Barne de la Maza-
British Council' Scholarship she completed an MA in Photographic Studies at
the University of Westminster. She has exhibited widley in Spain and in
London.
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