the colorful lair Retrospective

Retrospective exhibition that presented an overview of the artist's work dating back to her time as a student at the College of Fine Arts. Some of the works from her private collection, shown here, were part of the finalist exhibition organized by the faculty itself. This exhibition highlights a very specific period of her work, a period of experimentation where the artist is still looking for her personal language and where she explored the appropriation of almost childish forms and the freedom of color, in an almost psychedelic Kafkaesque universe.

Although it is quite different from her most recent work, where the artist is detached from the past and decidedly changes direction, it seemed interesting to us to present a sample of this set of works from a biographical perspective that illustrates the evolution of the artist and an early period. of your route.

+ “I fixed the lair and it looks like I did well. From the outside you can only see a big hole, but in reality that hole does not lead anywhere. After a few steps, you come across a huge block of stone that Nature placed there. I don't want to boast about having premeditated this ruse; it is rather the remains of one of those numerous failed attempts; but, to conclude, it seems to me advantageous not to fill this hole. I know very well that there are tricks so far-fetched that they end up turning against themselves. I know this better than anyone, and it seems rather rash to draw attention to this hole and suggest that perhaps there is something there worth exploring a little further. But anyone who thinks I'm a coward is wrong about me and who's convinced that I build my lair only out of cowardice. However, a few steps from the hole, the real entrance opens, covered by a layer of moss, which I can lift (...)” - Franz Kafka - “The Lair”