Cielito lindo Exhibition

Postcards have been, since their origin, a visual and ideological construction. Through the manipulation of images, these small windows on the world have contributed to shaping the perception of tourist destinations, transforming reality into an idealised scenario. Cielito lindo is an exhibition that presents part of Cristina Arribas’s enormous collection of postcards, where the sky becomes the protagonist of a game of assemblages and repetitions. Sometimes, the same sky is multiplied over different landscapes; at other times, the same landscape is reinvented under different skies. In this montage practice, the postcards reveal their essence as visual artifices that challenge our perception and invite us to reflect on the visual construction and stereotypes of the landscape.