Selected Artist
NATXA POMAR (PALMA,1988)
Natxa Pomar holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, with a year of exchange in Finland (Tampere University of Applied Sciences). She has a master’s degree in Photography and Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London and pedagogical training.
She has held the individual exhibitions “Las Hermanitas” (Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, 2014), “Les dones que s’endinsaven dins el bosc” (Galeria Fran Reus, PalmaPhoto, 2015), “Terra Ignota” (Casal Son Tugores, Alaró, 2013) and “Correspondències” (Can Prunera, Sóller, 2016). She has also directed the documentary “Algèria: un viatge d’anada i tornada”, co-produced by IB3 TV and Cinética Produccions.
Her work has been exhibited collectively at the Art Jove Memòria Històrica contest, with the project “No són com noltros” (Casa Planas, 2023), “Ecce Mulier” (Capella de La Misericòrdia, 2016), “Tabula Rasa o la impossibilitat de construir una generació” (MUU Galleria, MUU Kaapeli Hèlsinki, i Es Baluard, 2015), “Desaparició. Absence as a pretext” (Fran Reus, 2014), “Identitats: Espai, Lloc, Territori” (ABA Art Contemporani, PalmaPhoto 2013), Foto8 Gallery (Londres, 2012) and at the Maison d’Europe et d’Orient (Paris, 2010), among others.
She won the Archie Gittes grant from the Cercle de Belles Arts de Palma (2014), was a finalist in the Art Jove Memòria Històrica 2023, and received an honorable mention in the Ciutat de Manacor Award (2013) and in the Art Jove Arts Visuals (2013). In 2011, she got a scholarship by the 1st Encontro de Artistas Novos in Galicia, organized by Rafael Doctor, and selected by Pati de la Llotja at the “Fotografia emergent” Festival in Lleida, Spain.
She has participated in the “Les Clíniques” at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani program and has taken photography courses at the Grisart school (Barcelona), as well as workshops with artists and curators such as Pierre Gonnord, Rafael Doctor and Alberto García-Alix.
My work revolves around artistic-sociological research through photography, video and the written word. My work reflects critically on identity, memory, power and politics, from a personal, feminist perspective, with a narrative and participatory dimension. The subjects I deal with are the traces of the past in the present through landscapes, topographies and installations. I am interested in the cyclical repetition of history (and stories), social, collective, individual and family memory, as well as the archeology of the place, the invisible, fables and lost paradises.
