An artist and teacher, Andrea Costas Lago has developed her creative work in a variety of languages (installation, video and performance), although she is best known for her photography. Her personal narrative broaches subjects that are both quotidian and universal from an emotional and psychological perspective.

Desapego is the outcome of a process of research and work carried out over a number of years: an awakening to the meaning of maternity, a first person view of it through art, divorced from stereotypes and idealizations, in the footsteps of works by other women, such as the poet Adrienne Rich, the photographers Ana Casas and Elinor Carucci, or the artist Ana Álvarez-Errecalde.

The project consists of a collection of pieces (photos, videos and installations) in which the artist reflects on her own experience of maternity, from a non-idealized point of view, and using the contradictions and challenges that this life opportunity has given her to pose questions and grow.

This book is available for purchase at the Museum’s Bookshop (LASAL BOOKS) and also online www.lasalbooks.com