birth
Barcelona, Spain, 1973
last update
27-03-2024
Mireia Sallarès studied Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona and film at the New School University and the Film & Video Arts, New York. An independent documentary filmmaker, she lives between Barcelona, Mexico City and other cities, where she carries out her artistic projects. Sallarès uses video as an anthropological and sociological research tool, but also as a narrative instrument capable of producing stories based on the complexity of reality. Politically and socially committed, her work focuses on women’s groups and real stories of people from all over the world, including France, the United States, Mexico and Venezuela, often linked to issues of immigration and adaptation to other people's contexts. She analyses the world as an outsider, using interventions and interviews in the public space, or other types of support, to reflect on concepts such as truth, violence, pleasure, memory and status. She uses the documentary foray to give voice to the people she implicates in her work.
She has exhibited at the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; American Society, New York; Organización Nelson Garrido, Caracas; Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria; Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (Poland); Galleri Image d’Aarhus (Denmark); OK Centrum, Linz (Austria); and the Capella MACBA, Barcelona, among others.
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Història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por
Las muertes chiquitas: Malú
Las muertes chiquitas: Mayra
Las muertes chiquitas: Doña José
documents
Literatura de replà = Literatura de rellano = Literature on the landing / Mireia Sallarès
Literatura de replà = Literatura de rellano = Literature on the landing / Mireia Sallarès
La realitat invocable [Enregistrament audiovisual roda de premsa]
Little deaths : (Las muertes chiquitas) / a film by Mireia Sallarès
Sexualitat, culpa i el real: Joan Copjec -- Sexualitat, culpa i el real: Alenka Zupančič i Joan Copjec en diàleg [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
Las muertes chiquitas / Mireia Sallarès
Las 7 cabronas e invisibles de Tepito : un proyecto de Mireia Sallarès
Las 7 cabronas e invisibles de Tepito : un proyecto de Mireia Sallarès
La sexta de las siete cabronas e invisibles de Tepito
Monumento a las 7 cabronas e invisibles de Tepito : unidad habitacional La Fortaleza, barrio de Tepito, México D.F.
Obstinado Tepito presenta: Las 7 cabronas e invisibles de Tepito
Las 7 cabronas e invisibles de Tepito : un proyecto de Mireia Sallarès
La séptima de las siete cabronas e invisibles de Tepito
La quinta de las siete cabronas e invisibles de Tepito
La primera de las siete cabronas e invisibles de Tepito
La segunda de las siete cabronas e invisibles de Tepito
La tercera de las siete cabronas e invisibles de Tepito
La cuarta de las siete cabronas e invisibles de Tepito
Las muertes chiquitas / Mireia Sallarès