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DREAMS OF AZABACHE

EXHIBITION & VIRTUAL ART COLLECTION

Online Exhibition and Limited Editions Available on ART.ARMY 

"Dreams of Azabache" is an online exhibition and virtual art collection by Estela Oliva exploring themes of identity, memory and ecology, through the lens of the artist's subconscious into a world where film and dreams converge. Available to explore on Art Army and to collect as NFTs on OpenSea.

 

This exhibition is set in a virtual temple with seven film scenes introducing surreal and symbolic narratives. The works serve as portals into the artist’s inner world, where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur, and the tangible and the ephemeral converge. The exhibition invites viewers to a dreamlike dimension in which theatrical sets come alive with real characters, including the artist, transformed into avatar figures and feminine deities, sculpted amulets and objects, and 3D scans from the physical world.

 

The project’s inspiration stems from the evocative album "Azabache" (Houndstooth, 2023) by Ana Quiroga, with its thematic exploration of magic, folk traditions, and the significance of the jet gemstone. Oliva, having designed the album’s artwork, expanded her collaboration with Quiroga to develop an audiovisual performance for Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Building on this collaboration, Oliva’s new body of work Dreams of Azabache takes a step further into a personal narrative, integrating her Andalusian heritage with life experiences in London. The Nasrid Star, a symbol of the architecture of her native city of Granada, shapes the structural form of the exhibition space, embodying the coming together of heritage with contemporary expression in Oliva’s ongoing exploration of identity. The exhibition space also features a soundscape composed by Ana Quiroga. 

 

Dreams of Azabache is an open and free exploration of the interconnection between natural and supernatural experiences; lived and imagined places; given and chosen experiences, where memories, ecologies and the powers of queer and feminine energies coexist.

 

EXPLORE THE EXHIBITION: https://art.army/en/exhibition/15

Dreams of Azabache: Artworks

Seven Video Artworks and a Virtual Space available as single edition NFTs available on Art.Army via Opensea. 

Azabache Album Artwork

Cover and album art for Ana Quiroga's vinyl and digital editions available on stores and Bandcamp. 

AZABACHE AV Performance

A multiscreen audiovisual concert combining Ana's new music ('Azabache', a new album released on Houndstooth) with Estela's visual work.

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