Paula Sánchez Benito's work reflects on the ways in which we construct our individual and collective identity from the current situation of social networks and the socio-cultural context of Spain. Social networks or mass media represent the essential channels through which we enunciate and show ourselves in society.
This communication modifies the individual, turning him or her into an anecdotal element that functions as a group. functions as a group: The Mass. Spain's socio-cultural context is nourished by folklore and iconography. folklore and the most referential iconography to generate a possible identity narrative that 'recovers' the symbolisms that supposedly define us in order to rethink them, a posteriori, from their current connotation.
Paula Sánchez Benito
(1995, Salamanca)