Lourdes Naveillan began a dialogue with the elements that has only been refined over the years. Elements of nature, or those that form part of her studio, her working tools. The recent series she presents emerged from an investigation into color, stain, painterly boldness, and water, in the solitude of successive confinements. These gave rise to opposing and complementary forces on her canvases and papers, such as the impulses of Eros and Thanatos, of light and darkness, of violence and sublimation, of movement and restraint. Thus, she invokes pure, material abstraction, the delicacy of washes and transparencies, the primitive gesture of humankind, and that emanating from the heavens, whose final interpretation leads to a unique language, one that is simultaneously ancestral and contemporary.

Exhibition presented at the University of Talca Extension Center in Santiago, September 2018.

The exhibition, “Transitar” (To Pass Through), as its name suggests, is a journey through countless recurring images in the artist’s pictorial work, reflecting her desire to create marks that invite touch, observation, and perception of matter and all the movement it entails. This process is always accompanied by vibrant color, forms, and, at the same time, a suggestive degree of abstraction. The aim of this exhibition is to enhance all the pictorial resources to create a visceral sensation that draws the viewer in. Previously, in her work, color, marks, and movements were interwoven with figures and characters emerging from them, forming a playful world. One that can unfold on its own, where its marks, textures, and colors form an independent work, based on purely pictorial work and its evocative language.