01/31/2024
Valerie Campos’ most recent works exhibited in M5 CONTEMPO Gallery in Oaxaca, ANALOGÍAS— reveal an artist who breaks with abstraction towards a painting of objects and treacherous visual rhythms.
These processes speak of a struggle with the fundamental question of painting: the creation of images and what the simple act of painting can express.
The caustic banality of Valerie Campos’ work lies in the fact on how they conceal nothing, perhaps a claustrophobic impulse from her early works and her need to erase them all. Start from scratch, with the same curiosity as at the beginning, but without innocence. All these acquired skills in the process from abstraction to realism and viceversa are now used in this parody purpose. Cartoonish representations of anthropomorphic figures emerging from a kind of pre-Hispanic o**y. Campos manages to balance her erotic energy in bursts of thick paint brush strokes, repetitive lines and waves that invite the viewer’s eye to dance on the canvas.👉🏽 https://youtu.be/pIncIdlndtE?si=2S8pJKY5siRkJteV
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