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Bárbara Juan

Solo Show
09.02.2007 - 21.04.2007

One of the most exciting young talents to have emerged from the Balearics in the last two decades. She first became known thanks to her iconic pillow-like canvases which carried images and texts illustrating the increasing "spanglinisation” being experienced by the new generation of Mallorquins who were born into a tourism-ridden island.
Bárbara Juan
 
Three years of intense and mostly solitary work from her atelier in Palma, only broken by sporadic stays at Teresa Raux’s atelier in Paris, have allowed the artist to break away from her playful social ironies, unveiling something much more introspective, raw and haunting.
Her latest body of work looks inwards, offering a mesmerising insight into the artist’s inner world, the process of creation and the sensual pleasure of manipulating textures and materials.

Repetition, a constant theme in her latest work, is the repetition of craftsmen, of organic matter, of the animal world, of nature. It is an imperfect, relentless repetition which leads to growth, change and evolution.

Her installations of ceramic flowers or foliage (the artist refuses to name her works, preferring to describe them using the names chosen by the viewer), are physical representations of the thoughts that haunt her, each peace is shaped by her fingers as a thought pops into her mind and fizzles away. The way each “thought” is distributed in space maps the rhythm, trajectory and intensity of the artists mental processes.
 
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