By Candelaria Penido
The occult, magic, the inner world, the allegorical, the code and symbolism are elements that are present in these works. Because? “It’s the way to deal with the strangeness of the world,” Ornella Pocetti, one of the artists I interviewed in an attempt to understand this way of creating, explained to MALEVA. “Departing into the dreamlike and fantastic allows us to imagine other worlds and open ourselves to new possibilities,” Carolina Constantino, commercial director of the Praxis gallery, told us in a talk.
Different personalities, from different contexts, ages and galleries, paint – each in their own way and with their own interests and processes – within universes that touch or link each other. The creations of Renata Juncadella, Ornella Pocetti, Majo Caporaletti, Verónica Gómez, Amaya Bouquet and Lola Orge Benech would seem to dialogue with magical realism. Since on the one hand, they display a supposed reality and on the other, elements that make it implausible.
“I try to present an apparently real world through the use of proportion, so that it then opens up to the strange and the mystery,” Majo Caporaletti told us. “For me the work is to externalize an internal and magical process in an allegorical way. In magic, ritual is the simulation in which a series of things are stimulated and moved. Scenic devices are located that work by opening real floodgates,” confirmed Renata while telling us part of her creative process.
