Hidrotopías – La escritura del agua

The project is part of the series of works that the artist develops on the water issue since 2005 receiving the title of Hydrographies. Topics are water and rivers: the historical transformations of rivers’ courses, commodification, politicization, the use and abuse that is made of them.

Eva Lootz was born in Vienna, where she studied philosophy and plastic arts and graduated in film and TV directing. In the late 1960s she moved to Spain and started exhibiting in 1973. She follows an anti-expressive, fluid approach that constantly expands the concept of art, and has evolved towards creating intersensory, all-enveloping spaces or, in her own words, ‘continuous art’. Her work reveals a marked interest in the interaction between matter and language and has always been characterised by the use of heterogeneous registers.

Her exhibitions include Metal (Madrid, 1983), Noche, decían (Barcelona, 1987), Written Carpet (Amsterdam, 1990), Arenas Giróvagas (Tarragona, 1991), A Farewell to Isaac Newton (London, 1994), La madre se agita (Valencia, 1997), Eva Lootz (Boras, Sweden,1997; Lund, Sweden, 1998; Odense, Denmark, 1998), Ich und Du (Cologne, 2000), Derivas (Oporto, 2001), Berggasse 19 (Madrid, 2001), La lengua de los pájaros (Palacio de Cristal del Retiro, MNCARS, Madrid, 2002), Sedimentacions (Fundació Sa Nostra, Palma, Ibiza and Mahón, 2004), Paisajes hidráulicos (Galería Trinta, Santiago de Compostela, 2007) and Hidráulica 2 (Galería Altxerri, San Sebastián, 2008). She was awarded the Spanish National Award for Plastic Arts in 1994.