helena

rodriguez

crespo

Helena’s work is driven by her interest in the most basic question of existentialism: what is life about. With that question, she likes to give the spotlight to the seemingly insignificant and unimpressive mundane situations or images in life, which involves the people in her immediate and extended surrounding, with a sense of nostalgia to stir up feelings of odd, and sometimes eerie, familiarity. Her work explores the subjects of self-awareness, the isolation of living, the longing of sense of purpose, separation and loss, perception of reality, introspection and the perpetuity of memory.

Through memory, the people and images around her and the body, she pursues to reflect on the meaning and value of life and personal experience. In a free existence, life gets its value back from said existence itself, and reflecting on it is a way of bringing that meaning up on a daily base.

She is also intrigued by individuality and identity, and tries to explore that thought portraits and images from both her memory and her reality. In these images there is an interesting sense of truth, as she explores her own image or other’s images, we can find a sense of understanding.

Printmaking and film photography serves to her as a freeing way to explore the reflecting side of making and mark making. As techniques that focus on the process, she finds herself capable of explore the image she is making without focusing on the result but the process itself, almost as an exercise of meditation.