on your Instagram it's always summer

From self-portrait to selfies. Social networks transform our identity into a performance continues, a construction that socially projects us into a new ritual of belonging. generation painters millennial, between 28 and 38 years old, born in the Narciso cave, reflect on self-representation and social networks at the Moisés Pérez de Albéniz gallery. He selfies as a tarnished reflection of success, also as self-exploration, critical symptom or meme meat.

This exhibition is the second part of a project that juxtaposes two generations through the drift of painting in Spain. praise of densitycurated by Mariano Navarrowas dedicated to the previous generation where seven painters explored the zero degree of abstraction, while selfiescurated by the gallery director Ester Almedais a commitment to the representation of bodies, mediated by technology, as criticism of the traditional conception of the subject in the West. Associated with diffuse forms of control and interdependencies, although it also facilitates the emergence of subjective identities, the selfies It has established itself as a new visual genre linked to our public exposure on the Internet.

Then The Bravú design the gallery facade uniting the Quattrocento Italian with digital image. Their melancholic looks in .jpg cry over a decontextualized table. Inside, a triptych affects sadness and shadows alluding to the mirages on screens. Ahead, the work of Carla FuentesExplicit and fluid, it transforms the portraits into a labyrinth of images, enhancing the protagonist's loneliness, which conveys self-affirmation and laziness in agile, hyper-realistic brushstrokes.

the smile of Britney Spears posing with him communist manifestoa screen of Gala Knorr, is a pictorial meme. The piece references an Instagram post by Spears urging love and creating a digital community during the pandemic. In response, the silence of the scenes Julia Santa Olalla. The absence of the body is replaced by an intuited presence. Its cinematic interiors evoke mysterious scenes where the viewer must discover their clues.

Between the two rooms are reliefs of lujan perez. His daydreams combine the animal, the human and the vegetal in centrifugal and expansive compositions black like cave paintings found in a cave. Ella Fidalgo It is Wielding Face they welcome us. The artisan in the fragmented and dissident body before the language of the layers of Street art. Fidalgo uses textile material to deconstruct the body by sewing its limbs together, while Face dispenses with an exquisite use of color to speak.
of emotional anonymity on the internet.

selfies It supposes a generational shot at the vanity of our virtual image, at the idea of success and continuous productivity, at the the false happy summers of our contacts.

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