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The Spanish artist Anna Malagrida works primarily with photography and video. For Malagrida, borders are a recurring theme, which she reproduces and transforms using the window as motif. In her works, the window often possesses a dual nature, since it can both be experienced as a protective element against the external environment, and as a hindrance to the individual's view or expression. The window can make us feel closer to or further away from that which is on the other side of the window, which may be something we yearn for. In the series ”Refugios”, Malagrida has photographed a number of small stone houses in a barren desert landscape. With their simple rooms and windows, the houses serve to provide primitive protection from nature's wind and strong sun. In the video installation "Danza de mujer" [Dance of the Women], which is related to this photo series, Malagrida filmed one of these refuges from the inside out, through a window. In front of a glassless window a cloth flaps in the wind, thereby creating precisely the presence of the internal versus the external, the protected versus the limited, and the unprotected versus the limitless. The title, the cloth and the chosen landscape could be viewed as a reference to the situation of women in the Middle East in relation to this duality. Using such techniques, Malagrida creates a compressed, individual aesthetic perspective on a current situation, transformed into something subjective and artistic. Anna Malagrida was born in 1970 in Barcelona, and lives and works in Barcelona and Paris. Her works are represented in several public collections, including Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León and Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki. She has held several solo exhibitions, including Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid and Fondation Ecureuil pour l’Art Contemporain in Toulouse.