Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / FEBRUARY 2023
Sònia Sola Gil
Spain
www.soniasolart.com/statement
About
Since its beginnings, my work as an artist has been a
constant reflection on two questions: what does it mean to
be a woman and what does it mean to have a body?
The illustrations and paintings in my work touch on the world
of women, the unconscious, the fears, the anguish as well as
their strengths. I always try to show the most intimate and
invisible to the eye, and how a body touches in different ways
the subjective, the political and the cultural.
I try to obtain by painting, illustrating and experimenting with
different techniques, a vision of the woman as an individual
and the woman within society, together with the study of
anatomy, and abstraction and its distortion.
I seek to express how our thoughts, emotions and bodies
connect and communicate with each other in the world, from
a gender and feminist perspective.
The main media for the realization of the works are oil and
black ink, being always present the body and the symbolism.
The gaze of time and the time of the gaze
The aim of this project is to allude the biography of people,
i.e. the period of time between birth and death. This work
is an interior space for the viewer that calls for meditation,
concentration, awareness of oneself: a re-encounter with
oneself. Also, and quoting Susan Sontag: ""We can be sure of
one thing about this uniquely modern mode of all experience:
the gaze, and the collection of the fragments of the gaze, can
never be complete.
The following work, also, aims to vindicate the woman's
body from a place outside of objectification and outside of
the patriarchal gaze, where the body is cloistered under its
dictates and desires. There is a difficult cycle to break within
the patriarchal eye, we want to be desired and desirable but...
desirable for whom and for what? This is a question that must
be analyzed in detail so that our bodies are not transformed
into spaces for the accumulation of capital. The aim is to
rethink, then, the place of women's body -using my body as
an example- and simultaneously generate a reflection that
acts as a critical counterpoint, as a space for action and as a
place of subversion.