Consciously and unconsciously celebrating an innate connection with nature, Russo’s inherently psychological abstract paintings evolve spontaneously and respond to both, her inner world and surroundings. Embracing a multidisciplinary practice, her paintings explore the materiality of surface and object. Utilising objets trouvés or unusual materials as a starting point, Russo begins each piece by dyeing her substrates with natural pigments. Later, these unstretched and dyed canvases are laid on the ground and painted, accruing organic traces and relating to the body through scale and the unfolding painterly gestures within them. Complimentarily, Rodríguez’s ceramic sculptures reflect their maker’s body both figuratively and tactilely.
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