Gallery façade. January 2016.
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Eje polar. 2016, 644 x 135 cm, wood, glass and 61 fabric-lined pillows.
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Lost conversation. 2015, 305 x 244 cm, acrylic on canvas.
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Boreal. 2015, 46 x 66 cm, paint on metal.
Detrás del espejo. 2015, 66 x 46 cm, paint on metal.
Doble vacío. 2015, 212 x 300 cm, paint on metal.
El refugio. 2015, 30 x 30 cm, paint on methacrylate.
Indeciso. 2015, 28 x 36 cm, paint on methacrylate.
Lost conversation. 2015, 305 x 244 cm, paint on canvas.
Septentrión. 2015, 212 x 300 cm, paint on metal.
Tan lejos. 2015, 46 x 66 cm, paint on metal.
Veredicto. 2015, 66 x 46 cm, paint on metal.
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“Boreal is the title I have chosen for my first exhibition at the Moisés Pérez de Albéniz gallery. With ongoing hesitation, although also with a bit of satisfaction, I see myself experimenting, mixing vocabulary and playfully hybridizing syntaxes that have been familiar to me for some time—exposing serious fissures, in search of a syntax where the figurative and the abstract oppose and merge, breaking the common framework. My intention is not to produce surprise but rather to incite feelings, memories, thoughts. The exhibit can be seen as intimate and concentric, as it has been created based on my total belief in painting and seclusion. I have worked in large and open formats and I have worked with painting and collage on aluminium and canvas, as well as with small sheets and objects, taking a different approach, more intimate and isolated, making use of plastic, wood, metal and other common materials in my work. With a chaotic but infinite optimism of the world, “airs and forms dying”, as Rimbaud would say, I enter into the theme of utopian landscapes in this time of change and dizziness. The works displayed are divided into three blocks:
One EXTERIOR block, from the search to the encounter, waiting for something to happen, to persist, albeit imaginary or unreal, utopian, but that reveals itself to the enclosure and transmits something, even at the expense of devouring itself. The landscape designed and observed from the outside and the landscape inhabited by figures that pass through, observe, walk, surprise and discover themselves, transforming its inside. The second block: REFUGE, or internal introspection, refers to spaces of internal seclusion, as well as protective shields and shacks, and the study of New York winter, a place of reading, thinking and meditation. A place of captive fireflies, dark stones of desire and boreal thrill.
A third piece: “Boreal axis”, is a column made of fabrics that traverse the vertical space in the gallery from top to bottom. It is placed upon a circle of mirror and could also be called “I-My” or “My North”.
Obsessed retina, needing to suspend from reality.
Paintings tied and untied, playful and serious—paintings from my landscape.
Little ignition of my dreams.”
Victoria Civera, January 2016