The Bullfight and Other Family Album Cutouts (2005-6)
![<p>Lala’s bullfighter_2005, cut out photograph </p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2005_9.jpg)
![<p>Lala’s bullfight with beautiful lady_2006, 100×70 cm, cut out photograph</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2006_10.jpg)
![<p>Lala’s bullring_2006, 70×105 cm, cut out photograph </p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2006_4.jpg)
![<p>Lala’s bullfight with mysterious man, 2005_100x66 cm, cut out photograph </p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2006_3.jpg)
![<p>Lala’s Magic man_2005, cut out photograph</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2005_10.jpg)
![<p>Lala’s bullfighter with priest and two ladies_2005, 100×66 cm, cut out photograph</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2005_8.jpg)
![<p>Turi and Zoo_2010, 35cm x 35cm, cut photograph and artist’s tape</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/anew-turi-zoo.jpg)
![<p>Lala and Turi, Maggie and Zoo_2010, 25cm x 20cm x 30cm, cut photograph and artist’s tape</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/anew-Lala-turi.jpg)
![<p>Santi and Kiko_2010, 35 x 35 cm, cut photograph and artist’s tape</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/anew-santi-chicco.jpg)
![<p>Tio Perico in Venice_2006, 105×70 cm, cut out photograph </p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2006_6.jpg)
![<p>Galicia_2005, 47×61 cm, cut out photograph</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2005_12.jpg)
![<p>Rock picking and knitting_2010, 20cm x 30cm. cut photograph</p>](https://api.maggiecardelus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/arock-picking-and-knit.jpg)
My aunt gave me a box of negatives belonging to my grandparents. Among them, were images of a bullfight and of people I didn't recognise. I printed the images and continued to be frustrated by their surface hermeticism. Nobody in the family knew anything about them. Because the photos were of a bullfight and a group of attendees, I began to see the images as bulls and myself as a bullfighter. Using my x-axto knife as sword, I worked my way through the images and after many, many hours with them, understood that I had slowly pierced through their alienness and drawn them into the narrative and context of my body of work.
Following this work, I continued to play with my knife (and sometimes adhesive tape) and images from the box my aunt had given me, carving images into them, splicing and reassembling them, or incising patterns into them. I will include some of them in this gallery.
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