S.L. Its Labours (1974-1980)'.
The first solo exhibition of Ángela García Codoñer (Spain, 1944) at the Galería Freijo in Madrid focuses on her series Laboresseries, produced between 1974 and 1980. The title of this series, which emerged during the last years of Franco's regime, refers to the ambiguous profession of labours, to which women devoted themselves: household chores such as embroidery, patchwork, etc., which were the main tasks of women's work. patchwork or dressmaking, traditionally considered women's work and associated throughout the history of art with the category of craftsmanship, a genre inferior to painting. Through this series, García Codoñer appropriates these symbols of female labour (fabrics, matrices, patterns, embroidery, etc.) and transfers them to the medium of painting, enlarging the grids and turning them into a geometric grid, an abstract construction that could remind us in the digital era of a grid of pixels.