MOURNING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN VICKY NEUMANN

Galería Fernando Pradilla presents Rearmar la casa (Reassembling the House) by Vicky Neumann (Barranquilla, Colombia, 1963), a solo exhibition bringing together canvases produced between 2023 and 2025. These medium- and large-format works continue the artist’s ongoing formal and conceptual investigations, reaffirming some of the distinctive traits of her practice.

The selected works unfold through a reading of layers—both temporal and physical—where domestic and familial scenes are imbued with a nostalgic atmosphere that evokes memory and childhood. Everything appears filtered through a personal vision of the past: a confrontation with grief and loss, and a resistance to oblivion—or at least an attempt to come to terms with it.

By incorporating fragments of cut canvases that prompt a renewed reading, the Colombian artist reinforces mending and reconstruction as structuring elements of the exhibition, reclaiming painting as a space of contradiction. In this vein, her engagement with construction and rehabilitation, both physical and conceptual, reveals an intense and emotional gesture, yet one grounded in balance.

Her compositions portray female and male figures distanced in their roles, allowing for an exploration of the effects of time, memory, and the role of Latin American women—recurring concerns throughout Neumann’s career. The depicted furniture and figures become presences distorted by time. Within this dual condition, her works embrace layered planes and dragged paint, conceptually linking erasure and illusion, and inviting reflection on remembrance through what is visible and what remains concealed.

Vicky Neumann: Rearmar la casa can be seen until April 1, 2026 at Fernando Pradilla, Claudio Coello 20, Madrid, Spain.