Cielito lindo

Presentation with Cristina Arribas and the artist Iván Candeo, special collaborator in the exhibition.

Postcards have been, since their origin, a visual and ideological construction. Through the image manipulation, these small windows to the world have contributed to shape the perception of tourist destinations, transforming reality into an idealised scenario. ‘Cielito lindo’ is an exhibition that presents part of Cristina Arribas’s enormous postcard collection, where the sky becomes the central character in a game of assemblages and repetitions. Sometimes, the same sky is multiplied over different landscapes; at other times, the same landscape is reinvented under different skies. In this assembly practice, the postcards reveal their essence as visual artifices that challenge our perception and invite us to reflect on the visual construction and stereotypes of the landscape.