N.A.S.A.L. is pleased to present No Todas las Rocas son Montañas, an exhibition by Fransesca Palma, at its Guayaquil space. The exhibition is curated by Giada Lusardi.
"The image of the lion sculpture in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa invites us to enter the exhibition with suspicion. It is a lion that cries and looks down on us from above; its image is negativized to take up the feline vision and emphasize the difference between the ways of seeing things, that of the human being and that of the animal. In her work, the human being is and is not at the same time. There is her gaze, her gesture, her perception of landscapes, of natural elements, of light phenomena, or her spirituality embodied by the sculptures of Italian churches. The artist is interested in the roughness and chiaroscuro effects that reveal the three-dimensionality of her rocks, pointed and full of textures. These reliefs become protagonists in her pictorial work and activate the perception of expectant, diverse beings that Palma imagines as human and non-human. Palma builds her work at the limit of consciousness, where, as Freud says, what is repressed always comes back to life and then blooms on the skin, like the tattoos on the hands that occupy the center of the rooms, as in a psychedelic vision of fluorescent colors."
Giada Lusardi