23.11.23 –
26.11.23
La luna se levanta
Pradiauto presents the second edition of the Host line with "La luna se levanta", the first solo exhibition of the artist Gádor Salís de Carvajal. Gádor (Madrid, 1990) comes from a background in graphic design and photography that naturally expands towards other formats of different materialities. Photography is a fundamental element in her practice, as it is through this medium that she captures much of the content that she later shapes and expands.
"La luna se levanta" is the film that Gádor was watching when she immortalised a vase with flowers that appeared on the screen. Gádor's gaze remains in an image and so she pauses the film, photographs the television and prints this moment. This is the process she has followed in the creation of the photographic series presented for the first time in this exhibition. All her work moves playfully between different disciplines including photography, screenshot, painting or ceramics to pursue a common state, which is time in pause, with a constant subject, which is nature: her work repeatedly returns to reframing petals, flowers, leaves, plants, gardens.
The series ("Qué te parecen mis rosas", 2023) is shown alongside two other bodies of work; a set of ceramic vases and acrylic paintings on canvas and paper. The artist has developed an intimate relationship with ceramics and its process; she spends long hours communicating and understanding the material, its responses, its reactions. Behind the simple format of the vase, there is a careful attention to colour, proportion and finish. Finally, the paintings continue an exercise of observation and transformation of an image: from mobile phone screenshots - often taken from instagram or television - Gádor parcells the image into groups of colour, simplifying and synthesising the original reference and bringing it to its most sensorial and decoded side - colour.
By endowing all these digital images with a physical condition, Gádor gives them back, in a way, a lost materiality. The flowers now inhabit a new, eternal screen that can be touched and kept in time with us.
"La luna se levanta" is the film that Gádor was watching when she immortalised a vase with flowers that appeared on the screen. Gádor's gaze remains in an image and so she pauses the film, photographs the television and prints this moment. This is the process she has followed in the creation of the photographic series presented for the first time in this exhibition. All her work moves playfully between different disciplines including photography, screenshot, painting or ceramics to pursue a common state, which is time in pause, with a constant subject, which is nature: her work repeatedly returns to reframing petals, flowers, leaves, plants, gardens.
The series ("Qué te parecen mis rosas", 2023) is shown alongside two other bodies of work; a set of ceramic vases and acrylic paintings on canvas and paper. The artist has developed an intimate relationship with ceramics and its process; she spends long hours communicating and understanding the material, its responses, its reactions. Behind the simple format of the vase, there is a careful attention to colour, proportion and finish. Finally, the paintings continue an exercise of observation and transformation of an image: from mobile phone screenshots - often taken from instagram or television - Gádor parcells the image into groups of colour, simplifying and synthesising the original reference and bringing it to its most sensorial and decoded side - colour.
By endowing all these digital images with a physical condition, Gádor gives them back, in a way, a lost materiality. The flowers now inhabit a new, eternal screen that can be touched and kept in time with us.
Gádor Salis de Carvajal
Gádor (Madrid, 1990) comes from a background in graphic design and photography that expands, naturally, towards other formats of different materialities. Photography is a fundamental element in her practice, as it is from this medium that she captures much of the content that she later moulds and expands.