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Thrilled to be part of the show: In pictures: Walter Benjamin’s Little history of photography. From the IMJ Collection Israel Museum / Opening August 8th / Jerusalem Thank you to @giladreich @israel_museum #israelmuseum #walterbenjamin #historyofphotography

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Testing,testing,testing!! @multiple_editions @santanderfundacion @ogamipress @bgomezmo #fundaciónbancosantander #iralombardia #screenprinting

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Thank you, @tiqueart , for featuring my publication Neo Gods & Hyper Myths, edited by @meteoroeditions With texts by Jesús Alcaide @ajgilalcaide & Jon Snyder @strangestofarrangements This publication was made with the support of: Acción Cultural Española @acecultura SCAN @scan_arte Galería Alarcón Criado @alarcon_criado Copyright publication: © Meteoro Editions & Ira Lombardia Copyright Images Documentation Publication: © Meteoro Editions If you are interested in buying this publication, please visit: https://meteoroeditions.com/Impudens-Venus-I-Lombardia #womenempowerment #womenhistory #photobook #womencollageartists #iralombardia

Last 2 days of ARCOLisboa!come and visit us @alarcon_criado booth 104 #arcolisboa2023 #arcolisboa #alarconcriado #alarconcriadogallery #iralombardia

amigos, este ano tenho o prazer de participar no Arco Lisboa com a galeria Alarcon Criado. Convido-vos a visitar o stand para ver alguns dos meus últimos trabalhos. Obrigada #alarconcriado #arcolisboa2023 #arcolisboa #iralombardia

Colección DKV / Acquisition / ARCO Madrid 2023 / “Victory” Ira Lombardía draws from her archival work in the Aby Warburg Institute, whose images so inspired Benjamin’s dialectical philosophy of history, to provide an appealing artistic commentary on the semiotic unfoldings of the word “Victory” and its plural connotations. The result confronts viewers with the contradictory images of triumph from antiquity to the current geopolitical state of affairs, from grassroots social revolutions to imperialist wars, from micro to macro contexts. These images range from statues of the goddess Victoria in ancient Greece to, more recently, Victoria’s Secret models in the last runway show before the brand’s decision to cancel the media spectacle definitively, or the Instagram photograph of Nike brand shoes set ablaze over the Colin Kaepernick controversy. The rise of the extreme right in this newfound political—indeed, global—scenario makes historical and philosophical thinking as urgent as it is necessary. And so too does Lombardía’s project resonate in theme and tempo with Benjamin’s own, not only for their respective provocations to take stock of the rise of popular sympathies to authoritarian sentiments, perceived as a moment of danger, but also for Lombardía’s critical interest in the reproducibility of images within this scenario." ​ Jonathan Snyder @alarcon_criado #alarconcriado #iralombardia #fineartphotography #fineart #history @strangestofarrangements

Lazy Susan / Alarcon Criado / 9D13 ARCO Madrid 2023 #arcomadrid2023 #alarconcriadogallery #iralombardia

Lazy Susan / ARCO Madrid 2023. Christine Frederick fue una “economista del hogar” e investigadora que revolucionó el trabajo de la mujer al aplicar ideas del taylorismo al hogar. Desde 1912 hasta la década de 1940, Frederick transformó su casa en un laboratorio. Applecroft Home Experiment Station en Greenlawn, Nueva York, se convirtió en un escenario experimental donde el diseño, la gestión y la medición del tiempo y el movimiento se aplicaron a las tareas del hogar para aumentar la productividad de las mujeres en sus vidas domésticas y aliviarlas de la "carga de trabajo pesado".Una de las piezas de mobiliario por las que abogaba Frederick, era la Lazy Susan, una bandeja circular giratoria utilizada para reducir el trabajo de las mujeres a la hora de servir la mesa.   Como feminista, Christine Frederick inspiró al ama de casa estadounidense de clase media, elevando el trabajo de la mujer y entendiendo la maternidad y la vida doméstica como un trabajo especializado. Pero los experimentos de Frederick esconden una hermosa contradicción implícita en el hecho de buscar la liberación de la mujer a través de un sistema alienante como el taylorismo -un método de gestión que consiste en dividir el trabajo en tareas específicas para ganar efectividad basado en la medición del tiempo y la vigilancia. Images: 1. 1313 woodcut of movable type table Wang Book of Agriculture 2. Cabinet 3. Film “The Pretender” 1947 Images: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University   Sources:   The Midcentury Kitchen: America’s Favorite Room, from Workspace to Dreamscape. 1940s–1970s, by Sarah Archer   "Only a Girl": Christine Frederick, Efficiency, Consumerism and Women's Sphere, by Janice Williams Rutherford. #arcomadrid2023 #alarconcriadogallery #alarconcriado #womanhistory #womanartist

Ira Lombardia / Lazy Susan / Arco Madrid 2023 Christine Frederick was a home economist and kitchen innovator who revolutionized woman’s labor by applying ideas from Taylorism to the home. From 1912 through the 1940s, Frederick transformed her house into a lab. Applecroft Home Experiment Station in Greenlawn, New York, became an experimental setting where design, time and motion measurement, and production management were applied to home chores to increase women’s productivity in their domestic lives and relief them from being “weighed down with drudging labor.” As a feminist, Christine Frederick inspired the middle-class American housewife, elevating women’s labor and understanding motherhood and domestic life as specialized work. But Frederick's experiments hide a beautiful contradiction implicit in the fact of pursuing women's liberation through an alienating system such as Taylorism – a scientific management method consisting of dividing specific tasks to gain effectiveness based on time measurement and surveillance- a process where pursuing productivity gains ends dehumanizing labor. Images: Photographer / Unknown. Applecroft Home Experiment Station 1. Christine Frederick (right) and Mrs. Harvey, cook, conversing during a kitchen efficiency test. 2. Portrait of a woman running a dish towel through a mangle. Laundry room. 3. Unidentified woman preparing a meal with canned vegetables. Kitchen. 4. Portrait of an unidentified woman loading a dishwasher. Kitchen. 5. Applecroft Home before remodeling to become Applecroft Home Experimental Station. 1910, Greenlawn, New York Images: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Sources: The Midcentury Kitchen: America’s Favorite Room, from Workspace to Dreamscape. 1940s–1970s, by Sarah Archer "Only a Girl": Christine Frederick, Efficiency, Consumerism and Women's Sphere, by Janice Williams Rutherford. #womanlifefreedom #feminism #womanhistory #fineart

Grateful for 2022. Thank you to my gallery for their support and to friends, curators, collectors and institutions I had the pleasure to collaborate with! Looking forward to 2023!