María Barrio

Immersed in a reflection on genre, particularly in relation to portraiture and biographical portrait and biographical narrative, the artist seeks to highlight the representation of the body, mainly her own, in connection with her affective landscapes and memories. In this line, for Barrio, landscape is an encounter of what we are and what defines us intimately, which is, at the same time, the contour of our exteriority, with its own particular geography and emotional transit constructed from the intimate and therefore political narrative. Thus, Barrio reconstructs an intimate world based archives of her personal memories and history that also becomes collective.

Barrio creates a medium that allows us to materialize a vision of memories that we don't have, of experiences that we don't have, of experiences that are incarnate, that pass through the body -her body, our bodies- to create memory. These are the bodies of women, loaded with collective narratives, that have traversed the history of the country with a coastal landscape as a backdrop, celestial skies, the immensity of the ocean.