Àngels Ribé

Àngels Ribé’s work contributed to renew the forms, materials and grammars of art during the 70’s, a period or restructuration of aesthetic values. Her first work moved towards being understood as a space of phenomenological experimentation and consequently, her later works explored the overcoming of minimalism through the use of her body and nature. Beyond sculpture or performance, hers is a grammar of fragility in the face of the eternal male hierarchies; her feminism is an existential element that stimulates, transgresses and blossoms in her work without resulting militant. Ribé’s installations reveal not only a fragmented and stigmatised feminine imaginary but also the way in which the rupture in the social construction of women and the individual make the need for the spectator to act. The great contribution made by the presence of Ribé in the female creative space of the twentieth century is that this presence does not aspire to be a combative of female psychology, physiology or sociology, but a subtle testimony of the particular metaphysical capacity of this female state.

Spanish, b. 1943, Barcelona, Spain, based in Barcelona, Spain

Submitted by Ana Mas Projects