STILL LIFE AS PICTORIAL REINVENTION IN ANA PRATA

Travesía Cuatro presents at its Madrid venue Toda coisa que vive é um relâmpago, an exhibition by Ana Prata (Sete Lagoas, Brazil, 1980) that highlights the artist’s focus on still life as a starting point for pictorial experimentation. For the artist, this genre serves as a basis for exploring spatial relationships and the tension between objects and their surroundings.

Its possibilities for transformation, along with the expansion of the pictorial surface, the use of color, texture, and composition, function as the guiding pillars of a practice that appears simple but is highly complex. In this exhibition, an active dialogue with art history is also evident. Prata opts for the borrowing of objects that are not part of her immediate environment. These evoked images are integrated into new compositions that convey memory and recognition. Thus, every image can be understood as part of a broader network.

Her painting can be understood as a visual archaeology that reinterprets, with works that emerge from daily practice and take shape simultaneously from shared formal approaches. These proposals can be reorganized within space, allowing a sense of autonomy that is key to the formation of new conceptual networks.

Ana Prata. Toda coisa que vive é um relâmpago can be seen until May 9, 2026 at Travesía Cuatro, San Mateo 16, Madrid (Spain).