Mar García

@_mar_garcia_

Multidisciplinary artist from Seville, whose work is based on drawing and art direction. She has been working in film production for more than ten years, applying her creative skills to a booming industry.

Mar invited us to her home-studio, which is located in a historic building in the centre of the southern capital, completely decorated and designed by her, where we could appreciate her skills as a decorator and set designer.

How would you describe your art?

I begin with the expressiveness of the line. Drawing has an essential importance in my work, it is the skeleton of what I do, the backbone of the composition, which is why other pictorial elements, such as colour or volume, are relegated to the background. I like to shape simplified motifs that also are rich in movement, honest compositions that are based on the reality around me.

What does inspire you?

My own inner world, the emotions it holds. I have the need to decode what I feel or what others may feel.

I received a classical ballet education and I tend to represent dancing figures in a sensitive and expressive movement. Therefore, I turn to artists based on this expressionist idea, such as Egon Schiele.

What is being a woman for you?

A great responsibility. We have a very beautiful if arduous, task of gaining ground and telling what has not been heard until now.

Being a woman, for me, means fighting against these obsolete stereotypes. However, I find frustrating the constant justification of our existence simply because we are not men.

What do you celebrate about being a woman?

The very fact of being one is magical.

From my own experience, I am very interested in the principle of female fertility, regardless of each woman's motherhood instinct. We hold a creative and sustaining force that is absolutely indispensable in the development of society and human relations.

How do you feel about being a woman in the art industry?

I don't think about it too much from my own perspective, but there is a latent misogynist response in the professional sphere that is reflected in such simple details as, for example, taking care of the clothes you wear according to the context or having a certain attitude in order to be respected. Patriarchy has led to a work dynamic in which, in most cases, men create their own collective and impose parameters that lead to gender segregation, something that makes the natural inclusion of women in certain professional environments very difficult.

Photos by Mercedes Polo Portillo ©