Private view: Thursday 7th of October 6.30 – 9.30
Voraz, Ana Pallarés’ new exhibition at Hundred Years Gallery, brings us an eclectic selection of works that, as the artist insists on repeating, seem to close a long and vital cycle in her psychic, emotional and physical evolution. They continue to vibrate with those taboo themes that Ana, in her personal battle to feel and express herself, was openly confronting and demolishing one by one in her painting: homosexuality, paranoia, sex, isolation, death. Although the transformative process began some time ago, it is now that the artist meditates in depth on the relationship she had with her practice before this year and the one that, after the sudden loss of her father, she now glimpses.
From her reflections I extract:
“My limitations clouded the vision with which I approached the altar of knowledge. Now, suddenly, it has been given to me. The most compelling answers about Life resided in the only place where I had not looked: Death. There, I have found them.”
“Now I’m content with uncertainty, it suits me, I find it beautiful. Nothing to judge, everything to discover. Feeling is my greatest wisdom.”
“It’s as if my father, before leaving forever, had taken off his skin and covered my sister and me with different parts of it. I feel the weight of his old and wise eyes that are now allowing me to look in a completely new way. This look has a lot of experience but at the same time it is absolutely naive and childish. It is the rebirth of things that had already been born.” “From now on I will search voraciously without the intention of finding anything. In this way I will find everything I need.”
