Painting as growing ecosystems between nature and imagination.
Lia Vilahur: Soul of a Latent Garden, March 28th – April 19th
Opening: March 28th, 17.30
The representation of nature does not always correspond to a simple transcription of the visible landscape. Rather, it can take shape as a space of symbolic construction in which observation, organic memory and pictorial imagination combine to generate forms that oscillate between the recognisable and the invented.
The pictorial practice of Lia Vilahur situates itself within this intermediate territory. Her compositions do not describe a specific natural environment; instead, they construct autonomous visual ecosystems in which vegetal elements, organic structures and translucent chromatic fields coexist within dense and expansive pictorial spaces.
Through the use of acrylic on canvas, the artist develops a language characterised by a notable chromatic intensity and by a progressive construction of layers and transparencies. Leaves, flowers, circular forms and radial structures emerge as fragments of a broader visual system, suggesting processes of growth, proliferation and transformation.
In this sense, the works do not function as representations of landscape but as expanding visual structures in which painting seems to reproduce dynamics typical of natural systems: aggregation, branching and formal mutation. As the artist herself writes in relation to these organic configurations: “In this painting, pigment becomes water. It flows, breathes, transforms. Forms frame abstract spaces and enter into dialogue between figure and ground, without fixed hierarchies or rigid boundaries. Everything is in motion.”
Within these compositions, a luminous and serene dimension also emerges, almost joyful, permeated by a sense of confidence in the vitality of natural processes. Vilahur describes her process as an intuitive one: “I draw without a predetermined plan, letting passion, flow and inner hearing guide the brush. Like water, the painting does not impose itself: it adapts, envelops, permeates, transforms.”
The presentation also includes a minimal intervention composed of small painted wooden elements suspended by transparent thread. These discreet yet significant three-dimensional forms extend into physical space some of the chromatic and rhythmic logics present in the paintings, establishing a continuity between pictorial surface and volume.
(Barcelona 1978) Lia Vilahur is a visual artist whose practice focuses primarily on acrylic painting. Her work explores the relationships between organic form, colour and compositional structure, generating pictorial landscapes that combine botanical references, formal imagination and an intense chromatic sensibility.
Her works construct visual spaces in which nature appears transformed into a system of growing forms, situated between observation and abstraction. Through a meticulous elaboration of pictorial layers, Vilahur develops compositions that evoke processes of proliferation and expansion characteristic of natural ecosystems.