2015 bleached cotton on wood frame 227 x 155 cm each
2015 bleached cotton on wood frame 255 x 180 cm
2015 bleached cotton on wood frame 227 x 155 cm
2015 Reversible painting bleached cotton on wood frame 255 x 180 cm
2015 Reversible painting bleached cotton on wood frame 255 x 180 cm
2015 bleached and dyed cotton on wood frame 300 x 200 cm
2015 bleached cotton on wood frame 227 x 155 cm each
2015 bleached cotton on wood frame 227 x 155 cm each
2015 bleached cotton on wood frame 227 x 155 cm each
2015 Reversible painting bleached cotton on wood frame 227 x 155 cm
Californian Paintings
2015
Series of works made during the period of resident artist at Hooper Projects, Los Angeles, US
Belén is not a painter. It is her background in sculpture that informs her approach to the tradition of painting. Not comfortable with what she sees as the limitations of the frame and flat surface, for her, fabric in the place of canvas is treated as a three dimensional object. As such, she utilizes the structural elements of painting to remove them from the limitations of the trope.
The frame is no longer purely a support, it becomes a part of the visual language she’s employing. Viewed as sculpture, the fabric becomes the image.
