The works on display at the tallerBDN by Marina Rubio, Mònica Porta and Vanessa Muñoz may at first sight seem ill-assorted. Formally speaking, they certainly appear very different. However, the motivation that produced them is very similar in all three cases.
Whether arising from abstraction, figuration, or even irony freighted with a hidden rawness, they are underpinned by a single concept; creation understood as a way of gaining self-knowledge, of adopting a stance on life. These works express the multiple truths of a single truth, various sides of the same face. The artists who produced them see in the creative act a means for approaching the essence of things, even essence itself; hands in search of the ego.
Bernat Puigdollers
Art historian and critic
*Excerpt from the catalogue Fet al tallerBDN, Fundació Vila Casas, 2016