A tried and tested place
Exhibition info
This exhibition brings together thirteen paintings that present reality as an inhabited fiction. The compositions show characters advancing without a clear script, through artificial landscapes and scenographic arrangements.
The exhibition is divided into two parts. On the one hand, a series of portraits showing solitary figures, situated against backgrounds that function more as constructions than as real contexts. Pastel colours and generally flat surfaces predominate, where even natural elements acquire an artificial character.
The second part of the exhibition focuses on a sequence of a boy and his horse as they venture into a solitary and slightly theatrical landscape. The light reinforces this feeling, and the backgrounds, with their cut-out planes, appear like constructed stage sets contrasting with natural landscape elements. This combination places the scene in a territory somewhere between the real and the fictional.
Artist biography
Paloma Ahuja is a painter born in Austria in 1994, with a Spanish mother and a father of Indian and Slovenian origin. From an early age, she showed an interest in the representation of the face, developing a practice focused on portraiture over time.
Throughout their career, they have worked on visual projects in collaboration with their brother, a photographer, exploring the relationship between photographic imagery and painting. As a result of this collaboration, two of their designs were selected by the British alternative pop duo Oh Wonder to accompany the special tenth-anniversary edition of their songs ‘Drive’ and ‘The Rain’. These works are featured on streaming platforms such as Spotify, within an album that has surpassed 1.5 billion streams since its release.
Your work primarily addresses portraiture, reflecting an interest in capturing individual identity and presence through imagery.
Paloma is currently developing new pictorial projects, consolidating her practice within the contemporary art scene.
@paloma.ahuja
