Clara Sánchez Sala

Clara Sánchez Sala is a contemporary artist born in 1987 in Alicante, Spain. Her artistic training began at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Valencia, where she graduated in 2010. She subsequently continued her training with a master's degree in Art Research and Creation from the same institution. In 2014, she obtained a scholarship at the Institute for Research and Experimentation in Art and Criticism (IIEAC) at the Complutense University of Madrid. Clara Sánchez's work focuses on the exploration of connections between scientific, literary, and technological data, from a poetic perspective. Her artistic research centers on three fundamental themes: the fictional dimension of cartographic representation, the reflection on the landscape as a space of encounter, and the Earth as a primordial human experience. Through her work, Clara Sánchez seeks to create a discourse always referring to the complex fictional world that we humans generate in that incessant de-estrangement that consists of the encounter with the external world, which we usually call "real." Her work spans a variety of formats, from painting and sculpture to installation and video art. Clara Sánchez's work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums in Spain, France, Germany, Portugal, and the United States. Some of her solo exhibitions include "Hueso" at the My Name's Lolita Art Gallery in Valencia in 2014, "Cosmogonías" at the Punto Gallery in Valencia in 2016, and "Mecánica de la Mirada" at the Pepita Lumier Gallery in Valencia in 2019. In 2016, she received the Focus-Abengoa International Painting Prize in Seville, Spain, and in 2018, she was selected to participate in the Artist Residency at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid. Clara Sánchez's work is part of public and private collections in Spain and abroad, including the Focus-Abengoa Collection, the Contemporary Art Collection of the University of Valencia, and the Contemporary Art Collection of the Coca-Cola Foundation.