This Saturday, May 8, at 11 a.m., join us for a guided tour in Spanish of the exhibition Dog, swan, cat, tiger, siren. Make an animal by Granada-born artist Marta Beltrán, curated by the co-director of ATC Gallery, Juan Matos Capote.
In her work, the main motivation is the representation of the female figure as an expression of unconscious and emotional content from other fictional practices such as cinema, underground comics, literature and the media.
The graphic translation that the artist carries out based on these fictional practices is not literal. Beltrán begins to draw directly, without fitting in and without erasing. She resorts to a series of cathartic actions in which she, among other things, stretches and distorts the image, opens it, widens it, mixes it, tears it, tears it, and makes room for the strange. They are actions of the animal that the artist performs in her creative process in order to "improve" a psychic situation. It is catharsis as re-cognition —the encounter of an image that results as if it were one's own. From here, Beltrán distorts the image, drawing it, and builds a new reality. That recognition produces a change, as she says, an "overflow."
