@duniabarreraart
Snakes and Horses
32.5x42.6 cm (Framed)*
32.5x42.6 cm (Framed)*
Sorry! The Game
47.8x47.8 cm
47.8x47.8 cm
This piece touches this new feeling for me of aging. In the middle of my 40´s things began to shift but in a good way. The old structures that don´t work anymore, the old me that wants to break and leave space for the older me that once disappeared. The porcelain breaks and a “new” woman is born. The snake simbolizes the letting go of the layers that don´t serve anymore and the horse represents the wild and the free feelings.
Horses and snakes are two symbols that I use often to represent these feelings of letting go and being free.
I normally collect things that I find on the streets, fleamarkets or online auctions. I categorize and storage them because I know one day they will be used. They will be perfect for a future concept. When I found this game from the 60s I knew exactly what will it be. Using the board as my substrate I began to create the game of life for a lot of women. Being a good mother, attending the house, having a smile and good mood doing chores, raising children, being decent but also sexy and not beign able to deeply sleep because you are always remembering things to do on your list (presents for Christmas, for other kids birthdays, to put chickpeas on water the day prior to cooking them…) All this nder the motto “Sorry” You have to master the four “houses”.
About the Artist
Dunia Barrera- (b. Madrid, 1979) is a conceptual artist, currently living and working in Munich, Germany. Barrera comes from an analog photography background, with her work having been exhibited in a solo exhibition at Photo España in 2002. Her work has been exhibited at the Carriage Barn Arts Center, at Silvermine Galleries, both in New Canaan, CT, in the United States, and at the Industrie Museum in Gent, Belgium, among others. She has been featured by Contemporary Collage Magazine and in the publications of Fragmented Collective and Kolaj Magazine Artist's Trading Cards. She is a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists and the Berufsverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler München Oberbayern e.V. Likewise, she was also awarded as a highly commended artist by the Homiens Art Prize Summer 2024 and Spring 2025. Her work is in the collections of the Anthropology Museum of Madrid, the Subway System of Madrid, the Museum Cristobal Gabarron in Valladolid and private collections.
“My work examines themes of womanhood, self-worth, desire, aging, and the influence of
media. I explore how everyday objects can reveal the layered complexities of personal
experience. Each piece takes the form that best serves the idea—whether repurposed objects,
paper, textiles, wood, ceramics, or beads—allowing the medium itself to become part of the
narrative. Recently poetry is intertwining along the works, allowing a deeper vision of the
meaning behind.”
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