Carmen Selma

Carmen Selma was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1980. In 2004 she graduated from the School of Fine Arts in that city, then in 2005 she received the National Prize for Plastic Arts Art Nalon de Langreo from the Principality of Asturias (Spain). From 2005, she worked with many art galleries in Spain, Italy, Austria, England, Belgium and France. His works have won several painting prizes such as the Premio de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia, the Certamen de Arte Joven in Madrid ... Several articles have been written about Carmen Selma, among which the one by the Austrian art historian Birgit Strasser-Huber, published on the occasion of her exhibition at the Cervantes Institute in Vienna in 2012 in the art magazine Vernissage n ° 314, as well as that of the French journalist Virginie Moureau for number 3013 of L'Hérault Juridique & économique, in 2014. For Carmen Selma, painting is a form of activism. His works are not decorative art; she wants them to be able to produce a real contact, a disturbance, a memory, a change, that they involve the spectator so that this one returns home with an emotion or a reflection. Many of his works show family scenes, celebrations and traditions that have always been repeated by society. Weddings, banal photographs of birthdays, trips, communions, baptisms ... Often, the characters give the impression of not knowing how to express their feelings or emotions in words. At first glance, the scenes in his paintings do not show drama: they look like mere celebrations immortalized by a camera. We are well aware that appearances are sometimes deceptive.