Nuria Formenti ⸻

Bio

She has lived in different countries such as Colombia, Panama, the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, before finally returning to her native country, Spain. Nuria Formenti's work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and public institutions around the world.“My work is born, in part, from movement. During my childhood, I lived in different countries, and that experience of constant change left me with a fragmented memory, full of images, languages, landscapes, and sensations without a single center. That way of inhabiting the world—with displacements, adaptations, discoveries, and losses—has become the backbone of my work. It arises from that intermediate space, where the intuitive, the emotional, and the sensorial converge. This gives it an almost cartographic or narrative dimension, as if each abstract form carried coordinates or a microscopic story. I am interested in exploring the idea of controlled chaos, of how our thoughts, memories, and emotions float and interact in layers. It is an emotional map, but not one that guides; rather, one that records, that remembers without telling. I also speak of flight, not only in the literal sense—I like to paint birds tracing lines—but as a metaphor for the wandering mind, or the self that wishes to escape or migrate."

Y, ¿cuál es tu abismo? ⸻
Stick your tongue out in the rain and you will taste the sky.

"I work from intuition, letting the ink or color expand in a controlled manner, and then I return to the paper as one revisits a dream, beginning to draw details: fragments, lines, small things. Each work takes me days or weeks, and sometimes I abandon it and return only when I have already forgotten what I felt when I started it. I am drawn to art as a form of personal excavation. What I do could be seen as an attempt to map the intangible: the passage of time, affective memory, the weight of the places in which I have lived. The paper becomes a territory where everything can coexist without hierarchies. An unknown but familiar language, because deep down, we all carry within us a map that we do not know how to read, but we feel.”

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