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Have not forgotten our little white retreat
Where we were neighbors to the town of busy streets;
Our plaster Venus and Pomona barely could
Conceal their nakedness within our meagre wood.
Evenings, the sun would stream superbly, and would splash
Prismatic colors through the simple window glass;
He seemed a curious eye in overarching space
Who watched us as we dined in silence, without haste,
And spread throughout the room a mellow candle-glow
On frugal drapes of serge, the tablecloth below.
Charles Baudelaire, “Flowers of Evil”, XCIX, 1857.
The title “Holodeck” is a sci-fi term that refers to a facility on starships where holographic images are used to create realistic simulations of other places.
The indistinct landscape, seemingly uprooted in time and space, is a fitting device that transports the subjects to a dreamt place. An ideal remembered place that is always unreal.
Born in Madrid in 1969, Ana Galan holds a degree in Economics, an International MBA and an MFA in Photography. Since 2010 she is finalist in various international competitions, repeatedly of such as Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña in Madrid, Encontros da Imagem in Braga, The Center of Fine Art Photography in Colorado… Has exhibited in France, Italy, India, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Singapore, Netherlands, the Philippines, Myanmar and USA. Her work is collected in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) in Paris, in the gallery Le Château d’Eau in Toulouse, in CENTER in Santa Fe and in The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, in USA. She works as Marketing Director for a magazine in Madrid.
She creates a reinterpretation of the portrait formula that arose in Italy at the end of the Quattrocento, the origin of which we find in the work of Flemish Primitives, who brought together in painting portraits and natural or staged sceneries.