What if the self-portrait were not an affirmation of the self, but a strategy for disappearance? Samuel Figueroa’s text proposes reading Marta Palau through the figure of the Nahualli: not as a decorative metaphor, but as a key for thinking art as material, ritual, and political transformation. Between fibers, knots, and roots, her work does not represent—it operates. It does not illustrate the spiritual—it embodies it in the everyday. From exile to textile, from the body to the land, Palau displaces the center: from the individual to the community, from form to relation, from object to bond. Her works do not ask for passive contemplation; they demand proximity, discomfort, even contact.
Available in English starting May 6.
Vista de la exposición, cortesía del autor.
Available in English starting May 6.
