Potato head

Rosa Isabel Vázquez builds a sensory and immersive story based on a personal experience in which, after an important dramatic situation, two autoimmune diseases awaken in her and her health begins to deteriorate. Over time, she realizes that her state of mind profoundly affects her physical state, and upon investigation, she discovers that there is a medical basis to it all, leading her to make life decisions that radically change her existence.

Potato head proposes an original journey through the recesses of our mind, a trip that takes us through a universe of shadows, of images that gradually reveal themselves as fragments of a higher entity. In the end, everything unexpectedly makes sense, although it must be the reader who solves this little puzzle in which there is no single solution.

To materialize the images of this interdisciplinary project, Rosa Isabel submerged herself in various experimental processes that led her to create ephemeral drawings on potatoes, in which photography and video became the tools to allow them to live on.

*Winner of the Belfast Photo Festival 2023. Selected in the Art Book Festival of L’Hospitalet (Spain). Finalist in the PhotoEspaña Award for Best Photography Book of the Year 2023. Finalist in the Photobook Award of the Encontros da Imagem Festival (Portugal).

Rosa Isabel Vázquez is a visual artist, editor, teacher, writer, and curator, and the author of the didactic book “El Proyecto Fotográfico Personal” (The Personal Photographic Project), which has become a reference work. In her teaching role, she is the coordinator of the Author and Projects Area at La Máquina school. Additionally, she has collaborated with university entities and works as an editor and independent advisor for photographic projects. As a creator, she has developed an extensive body of work and has participated in festivals such as PhotoEspaña, the International Festival of Photography in Arles (France), Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal), Belfast Photo Festival (UK), Padova PhotograPhia (Padua, Italy), or the Festival Outono Fotográfico (Galicia), among many others.

Her works have received awards in numerous international competitions, such as the Art Laguna Prize (Italy). Among national awards, she has notably won 13 National Professional Photography Awards (Premios Lux).