With AI, photographer Marta Contreras Simó invites us to the frontiers of reality
The photographer and digital image designer, Marta Contreras Simó, based in Barcelona, designs paintings with significant universes.
To view on her site or on her Instagram account, her series feature portraits that sublimate women from all countries, from all eras.
She places them in landscapes or settings that transcend space-time. Here, variations around Andalusian portraits.
Marta Contreras Simó is passionate about fashion and the mysteries that this universe generates. She belongs to this generation which fluidly uses Artificial Intelligence (AI), a creative tool that she masters perfectly and which gives her the freedom to reproduce exactly what she imagines.
His gallery of images presented on his site My Lovely Views and his number of subscribers on Instagram allow us to assess the enthusiasm for his universe.
It was on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of Vogue Spain, but also as part of the photography festival, PHotoESPAÑA, that the artist presented his series « Flamencas » during the exhibition as a tribute to Seville, his hometown. « Spanish women: power and grace ».
Through her image-tableaux, Marta paints portraits of women referring to the April Feria (Seville) or the tablaos, cabarets reserved for flamenco singing and dancing.
Scenes from which seem to resound the depth of the songs of the cantaors (singers), the limpidity of the sound of the guitar which accompanies them, the intensity of the zapateado (rhythm of tap dancing), the feverishness of the hand clapping…
Marta Contreras Simó, at the crossroads of art and technology
She depicts costumes inspired by tradition, offering a more current reinterpretation. Some figures wear pants like the women who ride horses during the Feria or like the greatest flamenco dancer of the 20th century, Carmen Amaya known as « La Capitana ».
Combining art and technology, Marta Contreras Simó imagines Andalusian scenarios inspired, among others, by the Palace of Las Dueñas in Seville, where the poet Antonio Machado was born, but also from which artists such as the Baroque painter Bartolomé Estéban Murillo or the dark Francisco de Zurbarán.
Marta is represented in Paris by Detroit, an agency specializing in AI artists, and whose work is visible in several magazines and international exhibitions, such as Africa Foto Fair in Abidjan and Paris Photo. A beautiful invitation to the frontiers of reality.
