IBSA Foundation Covid19
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Lupe de la Vallina
"In the vacant places / we will build with new bricks"
Portraits of the key workers during Spanish lockdown
This series of portraits intends to pay homage to the key workers during the first 2019 COVID lockdown in Spain. The title is a verse from T S Eliot Choruses from "The Rock" and presents these portraits as an invitation to rethink the role these key workers have in society. These jobs (caretakers, garbage men, gas workers, nurses...) are usually underpaid and lack social recognition - yet they risked their health to let the rest of us stay at home and be safe. That is the reason why the poses and composition remind of religious imagery of saints or martyrs.