Samantha Hudson on Marcia Schvartz’s Doña Concha

This interview sees singer and actress Samantha Hudson (Mallorca, 1999) reflect on the installation Doña Concha (Mrs. Concha, 1981) by Argentinian artist Marcia Schvartz (Buenos Aires, 1955), highlighting how it resonates in different ways with the trajectory of her own life and art.

In the central figure of Doña Concha, Hudson explains how it chimes with the aesthetic which, inspired by the figure of her much-admired grandmother Priscila, defined not only the early years of her artistic awakening but was also pivotal in the construction of her identity. Hudson also connects Schvartz’s experience as an exile in Barcelona with her own search for a territory of freedom, a place to explore femininity and gender dissidence.  

This interview is part of La Favorita, a project which invites public figures to choose their favourite work from the Museo Reina Sofía Collections and share their personal history around it.