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“Bliss” is a project that revolves around the concept of the virtual landscape and its relationship with painting. Starting from the digital as an atmospheric, electrical ecosystem where forms are diluted into each other, the project tries to explore the aesthetic complexity of the virtual, and the impact that the landscapes on the screen have on our way of conceiving and relating to our own territory. Most of the paintings are made with techniques that reinforce the atmospheric sense of painting, such as spray or airbrush, but acrylic and sewing are also used, the latter being a very important part of them, reinforcing in them a domestic aspect and a direct relationship with the home (carpets, curtains... elements that usually appear in residential contexts). “Bliss” is the original name given to the famous photograph of the “Windows meadow”, made by Charles O'Rear, and whose literal translation is “happiness”. This fact captures the essential idea of the project, a relationship with the virtual landscape, saturated and vivid, perfect and noiseless, which contrasts radically with the one we have with the physical landscape in which we live, deeply contaminated and in constant deterioration; for example, the famous Windows meadow, which is located in California, suffered a fire not long ago and is now burned, but in our relationship with that place the electric and impossible image of the green meadow will always remain, settling in our memory almost like a delirium.


This project was born in the context of the Celestino Cuevas de Reinosa 2024 Artistic Residency Program.



More information through:

https://exhibit.es/artists/alba-matilla/



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