My projects are laboratories for narrative exploration. I install, intervene, and create to directly explore history, identity, and culture.
This collection brings together paintings and sculptures that belong to Olga Guarch’s creative universe.
Each work is an exploration of identity, diversity, and memory through an intimate and poetic lens
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In the Inside the Closet project, the pieces engage in dialogue to reveal what society often hides: fear, fragility, and the quiet beauty of being oneself.
Inside the Closet is an art project that presents a series of works inspired by various figures from the LGTBIQ+ community, along with sculptures that explore the same theme through an intimate and reflective lens.
The title does not allude to an identity struggle, but rather to the lack of education, understanding, and awareness that still surround diversity today. We often hear about the LGTBIQ+ movement, human rights, identities, sexual orientation, social stigmas, misogyny, classism, and precarity. Yet behind all of this lies a question:
What is truly inside that “closet”?
This project arises from the urge to confront ignorance, prejudice, and fear. Through each piece, I face my own “closet” —the secrets and silences that inhabit our society— echoing the English metaphor “skeleton in the closet.”
As Bashō once said, it is important to reduce the ego and diminish the self in order to understand others through observation. At its core, this project is an act of empathy —an invitation to look inward and recognize the shared humanity that connects us all.
