Feel, think, express, everything is connected
Curatorial
This exposition was made by Isabella Arrubla Reyes, an eleventh grader from Tilata School. The conductive thread that leads the whole composition of her artworks is sensitivity and expression. All the artworks that you will find while exploring the virtual web, are somehow related with how she perceives the world during these last years and how people around her have been an inspiration to never stop expressing her emotions and giving her point of view of what she see in the day to day. It's also an invitation to society for reflecting more about who we really are and who we really want to be. It's an invitation for us to think if we are really living in the world we dream.
All the projects have a final message as well as a purpose because she think it's important to impact others life even if naked eye it looks like something simple or little. The student’s artworks are colorful and expressive showing that mixture of feelings that she has inside her body but mostly inside her mind and soul. Also, the spectator will notice a common characteristic in the artworks and is the fact that she has decided to give language and emotions a very important role. She decided to express that necessity of making a change through words in all their possible ways. She reads, writes and speaks for making changes, she raises her voice for those who can’t. In the exhibition, the public will also see the relation between arts and words, two areas that may seem very different but at the end have one final purpose: connecting people.
This exhibition has a variety of techniques such as collage, photography, sculptures, among others that will for sure, make you perceive the world as it is today in a different way. You will find natural artworks, artworks that change as time goes by, artworks of deep looks and amazing textures. This exhibition, is, for sure, an exploration through the senses that will impregnate the heart of the most pure emotions.
Artworks
Time bomb
50x40 cm
Isabella Arrubla Reyes
April, 2019
In this artwork I wanted to represent a specific moment in my life that occurred when I was on a plane with my father (he was the pilot) and wrote me one of the most beautiful letters someone has ever written to me. The idea of creating this project as a bomb covered with real letters that I have kept throughout my life was very symbolic because it collects the full essence of my conductive thread: sensitivity and expression. Representing time and space of that moment in the artwork and complementing it with one of the “purest” ways that humankind use to express themselves was the key to understanding the project`s message.
My mom is Amalia de Llano
50 x 30 cm
Isabella Arrubla
September, 2018
This portrait consisted on a reinterpretation of one of the most famous paintings of Federico Madrazo: Amalia de Llano and Dotress, important figure of Madrid’s cultural life in the XIXth century. The posture, gestures and delicacy of the woman represented beauty at the time in Spain, aspects that I immediately relate with my mother and the concept of beauty in modern days. In this artwork we see two different women in two different periods of time that express femininity, serenity and beauty, taking us to reflect on how this concept has or hasn’t been modified through time.
Things change…
100 x 70 cm
Isabella Arrubla
January, 2020
Time passes and when we realize it, everything around us have done so. Nature, society, us. This project’s objective was to make aware the spectators of how fast life goes by and how due to both dependent and independent factors we also change. When you’re about to finish school and start college, when adolescence has hit you till the end and hundreds of thoughts about how the world is today arrive to your mind, then you realize you have changed. Thinking about changes, I found interesting creating an artwork that changes as well. This tree is made up of real nature materials that have become brownish and dryer than they were at the beginning in order to understand how with every second that passes, all living things mutate into a new whole.
Human silhouette of a transparent soul
50 x 30 cm
Isabella Arrubla
November, 2019
This artwork composed of 3 acrylics and one wood base represents how everything around us impacts our lives somehow. When we receive stimuli from any type, we assimilate it and then we express it. This process of building your personality by learning how to orientate what we feel and think about every second of our lives is what I wanted to symbolize. The first layer contains a series of objects and symbols that characterize me, the second one contains a blank silhouette and in the third one, we see sort of an explosion of colors meaning the act of removing from our bodies everything that we carry inside; the product of our previous experience in this world.
Emotional brain
100 x 70 cm
Isabella Arrubla
January, 2019
In this artwork, emotions and expressiveness play a very important role. My personality and my values have always been very strong and the necessity of sharing my thoughts and ideas to the world determines who I am. The combination of colors and how they are distributed in the brain is one of the keys to understand how our brain works and why we act, speak, think, and feel like we do. If humans had no emotions, we couldn’t relate with one another and we couldn’t construct society; here relays the importance of the brain and our behaviors expressed through art.
When I look at myself, I feel fear
100cm high
Isabella Arrubla
March, 2020
This object has the purpose of making the public reflect on who we truly are. Looking inside ourselves is always difficult because we face our defects and fears, because we aren’t always ready for defining ourselves cause we sometimes don’t even know. Art social function will always relay on analysis and interpretation of what we perceive through our senses and this is why the final product is an eye. Through history, humans have found their way to communicate; they do it with music, culinary, letters, art and more, but we also communicate through the eyes. Facial expression shows our identity and allow others to understand the reality we are living. I think a pair of eyes talk much more than any other way of expression.
