Dora García studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Holland (1985-1992). She lives and works in Brussels. Dora García uses the exhibition space as a platform to investigate the relationship between the visitor, the artwork, and place. To this end, the artist often draws on interactivity and performance. Through minimal changes, not encroaching on the space, the room is converted into a sensory experience, with each visitor leaving it again with his or her perceptions altered, or at the very least perhaps with a degree of skepticism. By engaging with Dora García’s work we develop a sense to begin reading even the smallest signs as possible signifiers. The artist engages herself with the question of what is real and what is fiction, and thus visitors become protagonists in a fiction: sometimes knowingly, sometimes not. In the year 2007 Dora García had solo exhibitions at Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, and Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, and participated in Münster Sculpture Projects. In 2008 she will participate in the Sydney Biennial and several other shows such as “Secret Agent” (ICA, London), and “Don’t Play with Dead Things” (Villa Arson, Nice). A lecture in the framework of the thematic seminar “One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes – On the Notion of Storytelling” held at the Piet Zwart Institute by the Uqbar Foundation.
