Working Shoes

Lleida, Spain: El Roser, 1999. Paperbound. Fine/No dust jacket. 4to. Unpaginated. Exhibition Catalog. Illustrated wraps. Ana Busto is a Spanish video artist who was born in Bilbao, Spain. She studied journalism at the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona. She has worked with video, photography, sculpture, sound, and performance. Her work focuses on the different aspects of the body: physical, territorial, and politic in the context of Western culture. Past work includes an examination of North American boxing through photography and installation elements such as mirrors and rocking chairs - in "Night Flight" (Barcelona, 1999), "Playa Girón" (Valencia, 2001), and "La Escuela Cubana de Boxeo" (The Cuban School of Boxing, 2001) - and visceral commentary through sculpture and large-scale painting in "Torched and Scorched" (New York, 2015). Busto divides her time between Spain and New York. Text in Spanish. Contains:Working Shoes, To Ficcion, Night, and Family Portraits.