‘Snippet’ means a short text, an excerpt, and in computer programming it is text that is inserted into the main text to emphasize particular aspects. Something like a post-it note. The Snippets of Cristina Huarte consist of a series of female faces expressing different categories and forms of angst. From a dynamic point of view, that central omniscient and omnipresent theme is broken down through a lineage of images that pick it apart and allow its nuances to shine through.

Snippets includes, thus, a language called ‘Angst’ and the speech of multiple faces that express it in unison. The value of these small chests and shrines that house the faces of limitless angst does not only lie in their specificity and originality but also in availing the significance of the overarching central theme. In short, this is about the Woman, wounded through a nameless accident that shows the effects of psychological aggression; the woman instantly stricken down and broken.

José María Bardavío