Poderosas
While creating this series, returning to oil as my main medium, I read Persepolis, a graphic novel where the author, Marjane Satrapi, recounts her childhood and youth in Iran, and how, as a child, she witnessed a regime change with drastic consequences in her life and the life of her country. A poignant story that left its mark on my new works, in which figures wearing chadors—those veils that cover the faces of Iranian women—can be seen, as in Munis and Zarin.

At the beginning, there is always the color of the tube —the deep ultramarine blue or the fiery carmine red— to create the palettes. Then, another color emerges, the dirty, mixed one, which forms as a result of the action on the canvas. With different tools such as spatulas or rubber combs, I remove some of the still-wet oil paint, subtly revealing a dry layer of color from the previous one. I’m interested in that vibration that occurs between the colors in dialogue, either by contiguity or by the juxtaposition of layers. Sometimes I rotate the canvas. This action offers me new ways of interpretation. In a layering of planes, lines, and curved brushstrokes, I paint —balloons, wombs, leaves, tunics, crowns?— resulting in a narrative where different characters become protagonists.
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