Love is ALL

Gentle Violence

 Photographer

VERONIQUE MATI

 

Text

MICHA CHRISTOS

GALLERIE DE VALLOIS

Paris

 

PILAR ALBARRACIN

ALTA TENSION

Pilar Albarracin presents a series of recent works “Almas Robados” – “Stolen Souls”. These works offer a tenfold and magnified vision of the plants and animals that adorn the shawls of his native Spain.

 

 

 

The artist grew up in Seville surrounded by these traditional motifs and she highlights her heritage with her large drawings of majestic flowers and birds. T he magnificent colors capture the attention and irresistibly attract the eye which then discovers another dimension with thousands of pins which modify its first impression.

 

A second steel skin with a thousand and one heads forms the back of the petals and feathers, thus offering two different visions playing on sweetness and spiciness, blos soming seduction and violence.

 

A fish swims with a detached and harmless air revealing its predatory spikes on its reverse side while a heretic peacock caresses the eye of its sumptuous dress to reveal all the contrast of spikes raised on the reverse side of its magnificent plumage. Pilar Albarracin captures souls in their joy and suffering in her floating frescoes in their light frames between heaven and earth, hell and paradise.

 

The artist twists and turns consciousnesses alternating tenderness and ferocity, she reveals this ambiguity between dreams and realities, clichés and truths to better provoke fascination and questions.