A Look at the Rural Portrait Through Magical Realism

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.6578

Keywords:

landscape, portrait, photography, magical realism, rural

Abstract

TERRA: Paisaje Valenciano en el Guadalquivir (LAND: Valencian Landscape in the Guadalquivir) is a visual essay that utilises photographic portraiture as a means to navigate between the visible and the invisible, the real and the magical. Far from being merely a physical representation, each portrait serves as an allegory, an open door to the symbolic, where identity is expressed not only through the face or pose but also through the invisible bond that unites each portrayed person with the land they inhabit.

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Author Biography

Alicia Palacios-Ferri, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

Alicia Palacios-Ferri holds a Cum Laude doctorate in Fine Arts. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Seville. She relocated to Valencia to complete a master’s degree in Photography, Art and Technique, and a master’s in Artistic Production at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where she currently works as a senior research technician. Her interests focus on the cinematic and photographic landscape as an aesthetic and affective space, a perspective reflected in both her artistic production and research work. She works with various artistic media, including installation and video, although her practice is primarily based in photography. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and has received awards in several competitions, such as the UHU Contemporary Projects Award, the Madrid Young Creators Contest, Valencia Crea, the Blas de Otero Foundation, and the Loyola University Photography Prize.

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Palacios-Ferri, A. (2025). A este lado Vacas, al otro lado TERRA. La semiótica del paisaje mito-mágico de Julio Medem y reminiscencias en la producción propia [Tese de doutoramento, Universitat Politècnica de València]. RiuNet. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/214737

Published

2025-09-11

How to Cite

Palacios-Ferri, A. (2025). A Look at the Rural Portrait Through Magical Realism. Vista, (16), e023014. https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.6578