Interested in Cultural Heritage documentation, Clara Bleda studied Bachelor of Arts (B.A) and BA(Hons) in Photography at the Design School (EASD), Valencia (Spain) followed a course of Managing photographs in the archives at The London Mathematical Society, London.
Influenced by Robert Frank and colour pioneers such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, her photographs contain saturated colours and compositions that appeal to everyday iconography and the history of cities, always driven by a fascination with the passage of time, trying to analyse the complex relationship between human being and history.
Without losing the sharpness and accuracy of sheer documentation, her work goes beyond the factual to immerse the viewer in an almost tangible nostalgia for a past never experienced.
She worked in different projects, her most popular one was American Icons that was part of ‘Fotográfica 2010’ organised by Paco Mora studio and MUVIM (Valencian Museum of the Enlightment and Modernity), She’s part of Raïm collective, and one of the founders of this collective.
ARTIST COLLECTIVE BM
‘It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform.’
_____John Steinbeck
The British Museum is a space that surrounds you
with narratives of history, culture and humanity from all over the world. You
are surrounded by us too, members of staff who are exceptional artists and
great minds. When we are not working our full-time jobs in the Museum, we
deserve to be seen (as such).
We wear a black, unobtrusive uniform, that makes differentiating ourselves as individuals and creatives difficult. Once we step out of our stifling shirts, loosen our neckties, we actively become artists, curators, designers, writers and photographers. This change isn’t just physical, we transcend from being indiscernible shadows, to beings brimming with the energy to create.
The aim of this collective, is to promote the artists that cannot afford to practice full-time, whose talents are fascinating, the very reason we admire each other and have united as a group. This is a significant way that we can create our story. We are artists from around the world, who come from different cultures with different ways of life, we find different ways expressing ourselves through art. But we have the same feelings and concerns, under the same roof, that of the British Museum.
Has working in the British Museum inspired or affected the way that you look at, or make art now? Let’s build a monument to our own talents, to stand amongst those that continue to inspire us all.
We wear a black, unobtrusive uniform, that makes differentiating ourselves as individuals and creatives difficult. Once we step out of our stifling shirts, loosen our neckties, we actively become artists, curators, designers, writers and photographers. This change isn’t just physical, we transcend from being indiscernible shadows, to beings brimming with the energy to create.
The aim of this collective, is to promote the artists that cannot afford to practice full-time, whose talents are fascinating, the very reason we admire each other and have united as a group. This is a significant way that we can create our story. We are artists from around the world, who come from different cultures with different ways of life, we find different ways expressing ourselves through art. But we have the same feelings and concerns, under the same roof, that of the British Museum.
Has working in the British Museum inspired or affected the way that you look at, or make art now? Let’s build a monument to our own talents, to stand amongst those that continue to inspire us all.