Frontiers of earth: Paula Valdeon Lemus
Frontiers of Earth presents the recent works of Paula Valdeón, a young Spanish artist with an inquisitive gaze who, starting from the intimate, manages to represent universality and invites us to reflect on the ephemeral and circumstantial nature of our own boundaries.
This new exhibition at the Isolina Arbulu Gallery in Marbella presents paintings and ceramics by Paula Valdeón (Badajoz, 1992). In her series Eliminating the Earth, the artist continues her exploration of the decorative designs, patterns, and colours of dwellings, this time focusing on the indigenous villages of the San Cristóbal de las Casas area in Mexico.
Valdeón plays with shapes, colours, and spaces of these places, incorporating motifs from her mental map. Her paintings and drawings, inspired by the culture of these indigenous villages, give prominence to nature. The resulting pieces become a conciliation of opposites, where the coexistence of two cultures allows her to create works that reveal a visual synergy between three worlds: the Tzotzil, the colonial, and that of the imagination. In this way, the pomposity of baroque tiles serves as a backdrop, allowing the Tzotzil representation of the earth to subtly emerge.
Paula Valdeón is part of a young generation of artists whose inquisitive gaze seeks universality through everyday details. Her work captivates and intrigues, leaving viewers eager to discover more of her story. Feminine, delicate, and refined, her artistic proposal stands out and promises a future as compelling as her present.
