De la ausencia (On absence)

INÉS OLMEDO (1961). Visual artist, with a degree in Film, and Drawing teacher, graduated from the Artigas Teacher Training Institute. She attended the Nelson Ramos Studio, studied at the Montevideo Engraving Club and took an engraving workshop with David Finkbeiner. In the eighties she was part of the second wave of the el dibujazo movement, initiated in the sixties, when plastic artists made use of this technique to take a stand against the political and social events. Since then, she has exhibited her drawings individually and collectively, and has also collaborated as an illustrator in several books and weekly publications. Her work is distinguished by the search for her personality, a reflective inner journey marked by joy, humor and monstrous dreams, produced by reason. De la ausencia (On absence IADB#0527), from the Oficios malditos (Cursed professions) series, shows her remarkable mastery of drawing and her characteristic stripped-back line, charged with sensuality and fantasy. The work represents, besides, her active participation at a time in which art recognized in certain vicissitudes of the artist’s life the mark of discontinuous social memories or broken memories.