SOFÍA MULJAT'S WORK IS A TUG-OF-WAR OF CORNERED INTENTIONS

"The canonical works in art history are the foundation from which my painting emerges, and they function for me like that childhood story one returns to in search of truths," confesses Sofía Muljat (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999). The artist takes scenes painted by Tintoretto, Rubens, Titian, Vermeer, and Botticelli, delves into them, and dares to interpret gestures, temperatures, movements, hues—the lingering trace in the air left by bodies. She turns these invisible marks into brushstrokes, producing paintings that hold a dialogue between what things could be/are and what they once were/still are; she titles them Nos reímos y veo al sol o Diana y Acteón, Un azul que contiene al dorado o la lechera, Descalza en mi madriguera o Susana y los viejos.

Muljat presents the exhibition Este rincón, mi rincón at Casa Santa Ana, Panama, through September 6, 2026. Here she gives shape to her search for building intimate, timeless places of belonging, constructed through a struggle of intentions between, on one hand, the chance to continue, deepen, and keep alive certain traits of the original composition, and on the other, the impulse to distort, dissolve, and make room for new forms; the canvas remains as witness to these mutations.

Her works are seductive; they invite a desire to dance within that invented time alongside ethereal bodies, "a longing to discover through imagining, to grow suspicious of what we believe we know completely, and to ask ourselves: how does one paint what cannot be seen?" reads the exhibition text by Juliana Iriart.

Este rincón, mi rincón can be seen through September 6, 2026 at Casa Santa Ana, Avenida Pablo Arosemena and Calle 14 Este, El Terraplén, Santa Ana neighborhood, Panama City, Panama.