Inside Out is the first multidisciplinary project where I combine photography and other mixed media practice to position the body as a container, a vessel that holds our energies, organs and thoughts, with the ability to communicate more than our words could.
This series looks for a connection between my family and myself. I performed this piece by contorting my body into a position resembling shapes and wrapping an imagined depiction of a microscopic view from an illness that flawed my mum’s and grandmother’s internal bodies. I looked at the influence of genetic disease, passed along family lines, which renders the body vulnerable to an involuntary destiny.
The perfect body is enveloped with the genetic imperfection, dragged from the inside into the revealing light of the external view. The final pieces weave together the emotional struggle we all have between biological determinism and the desire for free will.
About the Artist
Artist WebsitePaloma Tendero is a visual artist who explores themes around genetic inheritance, hereditary illness, identity and life cycles. She was born in Spain, where she graduated from BA (Hons) Fine Arts at Complutense University in Madrid. Following that, she graduated from MA Photography at London College of Communication, where she won a mentorship award with her graduation project Inside Out. Since then, she has been exhibiting and participating in artist-in-residence programs such as Sarabande, The Alexander McQueen Foundation in London 2020, KulturKontak AIR in Vienna 2018, and health and wellbeing through the arts programs like FreeSpace in Kentish Town Health Center.
Selected Group Exhibitions include Political Bodies at Galleria Cavour, Italy 2019, Live Flesh – International Women’s Day curated by Charlotte Jansen 2020, A picture of Health at Arnolfini Arts Centre in Bristol 2021, Body Language at Messums Gallery curated by Katy Barron, 2022 and most recently at Headstrong: Women and Empowerment at the new Centre for British Photography 2023.
