Caldas Olga (Portugal)

"Olga Caldas has been working on the staging of the body and on related fictions for ten years. Whether in "Daydreams" where she gives a dream autobiography, or in "And the body loosens" (which can be heard: "And the body this offense" in french), she transcribes her experience from the intimate to the closer to the flesh, that of the other or his own.

No pornography, but no repression of the erotic process by which man and woman, separately but implicitly unite a,d measure their presence into the world, seriously for man, joyfuly for woman. The artist purposely floats periods, ages, and even inverts them, as a childhood that would arise from the very maturity, in search of his first games, in all nudity and in all innocence. The feminine and the masculine do not remain wisely squared in the categories they are usually attributed to. Man can give way to his desire for passivity, and he will not be blamed for it. Olga Caldas strongly underline that her masculine nudes are the photographs of a woman. She emphasizes the rarity of this type of exercise. As if it wanted to fill a gap, to pioneer a field, without any activism. But it may merely gives flesh to  a latent expectation of all women: that man finally agrees to abandon himself. To see one's wound sing is the first step of reconciliation with oneself.

Poetic, the photographic work of Olga Caldas cannot be explained. If it makes us think, it is not as one imagines, but rather as one's reflection in a mirror: it summoned an unforeseen face-to-face from the inner depths of ourselves. "

- Text by Martine Lecoq, art critic and journalist (Dec 2016)

Education

Galery IMMIX - art director and curator, Paris 75010 (2008 until now). Galery with a focus on photography and mix media

LA HALLE SAINT PIERRE Museum - Art Brut/Outsider/ SIngulier - Communication and Partnerships manager (2002 until now)

Art history and communication (ICART and Universités Paris X/XIII)

Photography centre Jean Verdier – Paris 75010

2018

Art Capital, Grand Palais (Paris, France)

2017

Comparaison, Grand Palais (Paris, France)

Le corps – l’intime – l’intimité, Galerie IMMI (Paris, France)

Féminisme et genre, université Paris 8 (Vincennes/St-Denis, France)

Surrealism Now (Coimbra, Portugal)

2016

Yia Art Fair, Carreau du temple (Paris, France)

Fotofever, Carroussel du Louvre (Paris, France)

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