«SOTAVEU. Mar Arza» Exhibition

Mar Arza, recognised for her meticulous yet forceful approach, invites visitors to «read intensely» through a body of work that challenges the authority implicit in traditional discourses. Her art explores the rearguard of words and the ways in which they foster dissent, highlighting not only the abstractions of messages, but also their most tangible materialities, from typography to the corporeality of symbols.

Lightness, identified by the writer Juan Cárdenas as an attribute of great art, permeates Arza’s work. Her projects unmask how the arts have represented and stigmatised women’s social place and how they have influenced it throughout history. Through her rereadings and recoveries, Arza reveals underground currents of femininity and conspiracies in the face of dominant hegemonies.

In «SOTAVEU», Arza turns perplexity into a manifesto, stitching urgencies together with metaphors in an age of scarce certainties. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to confront art that challenges, that invites us to rethink and to see the urgent and the thinkable in new ways.

Visitors to the exhibition can expect a transformative experience where slowness and depth of reflection reveal hidden beauties, in a continuous dialogue with space and time. As the poet Blanca Varela says: «slowness is beauty... I accept mourning and celebration», a perfect echo of the spirit of «SOTAVEU»