{"title":"Eugènia Balcells","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ophelia-variacions-sobre-una-imatge","title":"Ophelia (variacions sobre una imatge)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOften misrepresented, the figure of Ophelia has been shaped for centuries by a predominantly male critical tradition: artists have portrayed her in romantic abandon (including John Everett Millais, Eugène Delacroix, Thomas Francis Dicksee, John William Waterhouse, and Arthur Hughes), while critics have recast her as a prototype of hysteria. Alongside other feminist reworkings by women artists of her generation—such as Ana Mendieta’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCreek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1974) and Clara Gibson Maxwell’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOphelie Song\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1989)—Eugènia Balcells’s revisitation of this Shakespearean figure displaces reductive symbolism and invites a more attentive re-evaluation grounded in a critical interrogation of art history itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOphelia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e project consists of multiple variations derived from a postcard reproduction of Millais’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOphelia \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Tate Britain), processed through a Xerox 9200. In total, 1,000 variations were produced. From this corpus, an installation and a publication of 125 copies were realised, each presenting a selection of 37 xerox prints. Within this field of near-infinite repetition, the work opens a set of unresolved questions: “Which one is Ophelia? Are all of them Ophelia? Or perhaps none of them is Ophelia?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54027516117331,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Ophelia.png?v=1781769396"},{"product_id":"anar-i-tornar","title":"Anar i tornar","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54335569035603,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Amar.png?v=1784296617"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/eugenia-balcells.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}