ONE LIFE AND TWENTY-EIGHT BINOCULARS
Solo exhibition
28.11 – 12.12. 2024
Maria Porto Gallery, Madrid
This exhibition is an invitation to inhabit the threshold between something intimate and something universal, between the notion of the immediate and the distant. The artist explores the tipping point where everyday concerns fall away and the vastness of other realities becomes unavoidable. By exploring the contrast between the negatively named ‘first world problems’ and the broader issues of the human condition, the work does not hierarchise concerns, but suggests a change of perspective - new binoculars - a broadening of the gaze that allows us to recognise the complexity of the different realities that coexist.
The work, which is largely figurative, mixes elements of memory, affection and symbolism, in which the artist, by evoking interior and somewhat dreamlike landscapes, challenges the viewer to re-imagine reality. The saturated colours and exuberant patterns form an aesthetic that, in counterpoint to the weight of the themes dealt with, suggests a form of resistance. It's not about exalting lightness, but about inhabiting the complexity of life with more freedom and less weight.
“One life and twenty-eight binoculars” reveals, in essence, the tension between acceptance and ambition. Art becomes not a refuge, but a constant practice of reinvention. The 28 binoculars symbolize the changes in perspective that the artist has had throughout her life. As with any challenge we face, each experience teaches us something new and makes us collect new “lenses” to see the future in a different way.
For the artist, this exhibition is a way of confronting and integrating her own challenges, mistakes and doubts, in a constant search for internal reconciliation. ‘Ana’ and “Malta” are thus two parts of the same voice, which meet at the balance point between life's fragilities and the desire to look beyond them. But more than a personal reflection, it is an invitation from one to the other to grow... and to enjoy the process.