Mayte Vieta (Blanes, Girona, 1971) is a visual artist who uses space and light as a means of expression through photography, sculpture and installation.
With a background that includes everything from Milan Kundera to Simone Weil, Vieta reflects on the contradictions in the human experience by means of snapshots that capture the complexity of the spectrum of our emotions, thoughts and experiences. Her artworks redefine the relationship between opposites with the coherence that only dreams encompass.
Through her works, Vieta creates dreamlike atmospheres, in the parallel reality in which gravity and weightlessness coexist, and where the boundaries of tranquillity and tragedy are blurred and insinuate moods that, with ambiguous intensity, integrate those opposites.
Her landscapes, composed of non-places of silence and calm, express the suspension of the present and the immersion of a new gravitational universe, in which time slows down and the subject becomes Nature.
Conceived as a refuge from the outside world, O son do mar expresses a form of complex happiness that contains contrasting emotions of fulfilment and escape. The feeling of fulfilment is accompanied by a strange perception of melancholy, a kind of astonishment at the immeasurable dimension of Nature, which both caresses and oppresses us.
Curated by Natàlia Chocarro, director of External Projects at Fundació Vila Casas, the exhibition has been conceived for the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), which is hosting artwork by this Catalan artist for the first time.
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
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