Artist
Lorena Morin
Born in Gran Canaria in 1973, living in Berlin.
Lorena studied fine art photography between 1992 and 1995 in Boston. Sometime later she went to Barcelona to study filmmaking but moved back to the island after one year in film school. Immediately she joined the team of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, this work got her closer to another one of her passions, films. Being so close to many radical authors and watching their personal films made an impact on her approach to photography.
Mum of 5 children. Since 2008 she has obsessively photographed and filmed her loved ones and their lives together developing over the years a coherent photographic work of a special intensity, building an ongoing project she titled Je reste avec vous. Her images reflects her daily life and focus on her most immediate universe.
She is one of the photographers from collective Temps Zero, an international group of artists working with photographs, films and sound presenting exhibitions and performances around Europe.
She recently published a book with Brazo de Papel/ Fotonoviembre called Himmelskörper, result of the last two years observing her younger children are growing and how their lives unfold fully in the space called Home, reflecting the moment in which we live and what happens outside.
Presently, Lorena diversifies her time between her artist activity and her work as a film programmer and advisor.
Himmelskörper
Since 2007 I’ve obsessively photographed and filmed my loved ones and our live together. Himmelskörper is the name I gave to one chapter of what is my ongoing life project (titled Je reste avec vous).
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To be together without devouring each other
To be together and continually pay attention to one another
To be together and exist individually without crushing the other
To be together, capable of exposing our weaknesses without fear, to better understand and learn from each other
To be together and to know that our freedom, however precarious, begins with that of all others.
Perhaps in a world that without any more shame or decency, legitimizes hatred and its speech, vogues on the fear and the rejection of the other, the ultimate gesture of resistance is to violently scream our love at all costs , in all forms, stark naked.
Text from Je reste avec vous written by Valerie Massadian.
Himmelskörper is built with images taken in the last two and a half years, and since the whole family moved to Berlin, looking at how my children are changing and growing, how their lives unfold, fully, in our home space, reflecting the moment in which we live and what happens outside.
Ignacio Navas draws from everyday life to explore the political, social and personal structures that comprise us. His project is a critique on the capitalist system, and the
instances of micro-violence that define it.
With her Paul project, Cristina Galán suggests the subversion of identity and something sinister under the visually-polished surfaces of reality. Figures suspended in
time appear in an idealised but impersonal world, representing the clichéd spaces of consumer society.
A disturbing feeling also permeates Felipe Romero Beltrán’s Dialect project, which saw the artist recreate the everyday lives of a group of Moroccan youngsters, as they await a future beyond an immigrant centre in Seville.
In Como la casa mía Laura C. Vela accompanies Xirou, a Chinese immigrant woman, in her search for a way of being in the world. The work is both an exploration of the main character’s inner world and a significant photographic encounter between two women.
Finally, Lorena Morin reflects on family life through intimate images of her partner, herself and their children. Captured in shared domestic spaces, her photographic diary reflects 15 years of familial love and unbreakable bonds.