‘Consequ\u00eancias na Mat\u00e9ria’ (‘Consequences in Matter’) exhibition by Sofia Be\u00e7a
\nGaleria de Exposi\u00e7\u00f5es do Castelo de M\u00e9rtola (M\u00e9rtola Castle Exhibition Gallery)
\n10 June to 11 July 2021<\/p>\n
Sofia Be\u00e7a, ceramic sculptor, is exhibiting her work in M\u00e9rtola for the first time. Her work, although rooted in sculpture and ceramics, assumes itself as multiform and calls upon the visual arts in a comprehensive manner, breaking the boundaries of the discipline.
\nIn the works presented at ‘Consequ\u00eancias na Mat\u00e9ria’ (‘Consequences in Matter’), Be\u00e7a presents ideas of landscape in wall murals or small sculptural works. Her foundation is the ‘lastra’ technique, which requires using a wood stove for baking the pieces. Waves, mountains, valleys or gardens are discovered in the works which challenge our optical perception and merge the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Others, more three-dimensional in nature, take us back to questions of divisions and conquests. We can imagine landmarks or stylised soldiers defending their territories embedded in their skin made of stone.
\nAlejandro Ratia, Spanish writer and art critic, highlights this side of Sofia Be\u00e7a as follows:
\n‘The artist becomes a topographer. She describes or invents a landscape. And in this topographic work, territories are defined by landmarks and geodesic points. These modern markers coexist with more traditional ones, often linked to religious worship, such as crosses or stars. One of the sculptor’s main goals was precisely this: the definition of borders. Which also entails giving the territory a purpose, a primordial function to which Sofia Be\u00e7a returns. (…) However, in Tr\u00e1s-os-Montes, where the artist tends to her wood oven, territories are still marked using stones. At this point, we could allude to a territorial policy, if we introduce property titles or signs of conquest’.
\nThus, Sofia Be\u00e7a wanders from landscape to History, but does not forget current themes such as isolation or solitude, materialised in sculptures of a dialogue-like abstraction with a force capable of deepening the feelings we have towards them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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