Years ago I used to write: “I am an artist who paints the city.” And that is what I have continued to do until today — but now with a deeper sense of unreality, or rather, of a parallel reality. My architectures belong to that place: closer to the dreamlike than to the tangible, where stillness prevails, a silence proper to imagined scenes. An atmosphere of infinite calm that evokes a gentle sense of peace, the same one I feel when I walk alone through the fields of my homeland, Extremadura.
This is how my cities are born: stripped of superfluous details that only create noise. A silence sometimes interrupted by a vaporous smoke that, in our imagination, moves and rises slowly until it disappears into the infinite, breaking the serene clarity that permeates all my work.
In this exhibition, a new reality emerges where skies vanish and forms float in an atmosphere more dreamlike than ever, with delicate balances closely tied to emotional memory.
It has sometimes been said that I paint solitude, but that is not the case. My work is a journey toward an inner peace that comforts.
María Luisa de Mendoza
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