Anglo-Spanish multiform artist Sonia Boué discusses her exhibition, ¡Buenos Días Dictador!.
The exhibition explores the duality of a childhood divided between schooldays in Birmingham, and holidays in Barcelona – which was then under Franco’s dictatorship.
Figures cut out of sewing patterns are tied to a specific time and place by the fashions they wear. These are laid over Boué’s haunting “dreamscapes” to illustrate a lost cultural memory and capture the surrealism of being raised in two...
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