Ima Montoya

1963, Bilbao
Lives and works in Barcellona

Ima Montoya is an artist who, before having lived in many parts of the world (Japan, Hungary, Mexico, England) was born in Spain, in the city of Bilbao. She graduated in fine arts at the University of Pais Vasco.
The presence of the bull in the crowd recalls the Plazas de Toros, the fiestas of San Fermín, the streets of Pamplona and the wild and chaste ritual of putting one's life at stake by fleeing the mad and desperate ferocity of the bull; a ferocity that arises from his fear of finding himself alone and scattered, without protection, charged only with brute force that becomes manipulated instinct, abandoned and thrown into the very center of the crowd amidst screams, sweat, unknown words, human fear, the furious and liberating laughter.
Over the years, the artist's point of view has moved more and more to a high position to show us the mystery of the crowd and its constant movement, like a tide on the beaches, between the quiet sensations of the absence of personal anxieties, of envies and small victories that ripple the sea of the days of each of us with identical waves, on one side and on the other the mystery of a new thinking head, that of the crowd precisely, which escapes control and, although apparently free , can instead be easy to manipulate, full of brute force managed with desperation and illogicality.