Carmela is a visual and performance artist. Her often precariously balanced installations and floating artworks combine sound, film, sculpture, photography and collage. They encourage the viewer to reflect on the notion that everything is subject to change, that elements can be uprooted, reassembled and seen in an alternative way.
She often collects the materials she uses in or around the setting for the work, with a particular interest in historical and social context, reaching out to those who live there for the stories or objects she then employs.
Carmela’s performances, whether as a solo artist, or with the performance group she co-founded, EP6, are irreverent and absurdist, and juxtapose dance and comic sketches to address the absurdity of changing social norms and behaviour. She is also co-founder of the immersive theatre group, Cinemorphe.
Carmela Uranga is of Argentinian and Scottish heritage, lived mainly in Europe as a child and young adult, and has been living and working in Paris for the last 25 years. She studied at Camberwell art school in London, and then the Slade, (UCL) under Bruce Maclean and Paula Rego. She attended the last session of the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques with Pontus Hulten, Daniel Buren and Sarkis, and then NYU’s film school where she concentrated on editing sound and film.
Carmela is represented by the Françoise Heitsch gallery in Munich, and the 7.5 in Paris, and her work has been shown in galleries and art centres, shop windows and in the street from Madrid (Reina Sofia museum, La Oficina gallery), to Dachau (Neue Galerie) and Belgrade (Pancevo Biennale).
