Dolores Cobo

Thinking about how to materialize my feelings regarding how we see mental imbalances or illnesses in the Western society in which we live, a society that stigmatizes and, although hypocritically it seems not, to discriminate against people who experience specific or chronic episodes of this type. This is how this artwork was born, a project that arose from my own need to creatively integrate a mental health episode that happened to me in 2009.

"An uncomfortable reality" aims to represent the feelings of those experiencing mental health illnesses and also those around them who don't know how to act naturally.

My name is Dolores Cobo Mérida, a 36-year-old Spanish woman born in a beautiful town in Andalusia called Priego de Córdoba.

When I was a teenager, I started to play volleyball and I got to play in the Junior Spanish team. At the age of 18, I left my life as a volleyball player and I focused on my studies at University as a Primary Teacher.

Since my time at University, I have been a seeker and still now, after having been living for 10 years in the UK, I try to make sense of every experience I have. I have found art and writing to be the best way to express myself and feel relieved when I need to channel my creative energy. I am also very interested in social matters and art as a form of activism.

An Uncomfortable Reality

Collage

8 x 10 inches

2022

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