Paula Bonet (Vila-real, Castelló, 1980), painter and writer, presents The eel. Flesh as painting and painting as a mirror at Museu Can Framis, an exhibition that revisits her previous project that goes by the same name. Bonet explores a pictorial language at the limit of figuration and abstraction in dialogue with her written work.
The eel is an inflection point in Paula Bonet’s career and comes to Fundació Vila Casas to be revisited and expanded for the first time since her latest books. The exhibition presents new works and rescues and places on the gallery walls excerpts of texts from her autobiographical novel, L’anguila (The eel) (Anagrama, 2021). She unites painting and literature in a single work and manages to create communicative connections between the written word and the pictorial stroke. In the current exhibition, Bonet reflects on the world that surrounds us and especially on questions and themes that particularly affect women. Sexuality, birth and abortion are the main themes running through this project.
Collaboration with Museu d’Art de Girona
This exhibition coincides with another one dedicated to the painter and engraver Roser Bru (Barcelona, 1923–Santiago de Chile, 2021) at Museu d’Art de Girona. Roser Bru was one of the key references for Paula Bonet, which is why Fundació Vila Casas and Museu d’Art de Girona have sought to collaborate in creating a dialogue between the two exhibitions and offering a joint admission ticket* to both of them.
* This combined ticket costs 6€ and can only be purchased at the Can Framis Museum or at the Girona Art Museum.
2024
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