Exhibitions
The plastic investigation of Rosalía Banet's body
From drawing to expression through painting, sculpture, installations, and multidisciplinary pieces, Rosalía Banet is now exhibiting Mutant Bodies at Espacio Líquido in Gijón until September 31. The exhibition addresses the body as a stage where conflicts, desires, and pathologies intersect, a symbolic archive that bears witness to the intensity of human experience. Through visual research, the exhibition seeks to make visible how these tensions—between illness, consumption, and desire—are inscribed on the surface of the body, transforming it into a mirror of social and cultural contradictions.
Rosalía Banet Renacimiento 15, 2024.
Banet creates, configures and reformulates an imaginary where the body ceases to be a unit to reveal itself as a fragment, and he does so from flat colors, textures and rounded shapes that can be seen in Mutant Bodies of the Gijón Space, located at Jacobo Olañeta 5.
Far from seeking the playful, her work aims to capture the viewer's attention and shock their gaze. Beneath a seemingly friendly exterior, the monstrous is revealed: organs, conjoined twins, duplicated bodies, deformed, expanding beyond conventional limits. The body Banet inhabits is neither anatomical nor idealized; it is a body of excess, anxiety, trauma. A body that is constantly transforming, intervened and redrawn, always on the edge of the imaginable.
Rosalía Banet Torso with Two Heads, 2025.
There is a constant questioning of the construction of identity, of bodily limits based on fragmented bodies, fragility, and uprooting from nature. The exhibition revolves around a central table that functions as a landscape, where Rosalía presents works that decompose and transform the body, questioning its limits and its relationship with the environment. The series Homo Humus and Totéms (Renaissances) explore the uprooting of human beings from the earth: segmented and empty feet in the former, bodies that flourish in the latter.
The viewer's gaze will be participatory, subjective, and reflective, but also sensitive and emotional. In each work, drawing, and sculpture, the density of the Galician artist's work is perceived. Her work is configured as a field of tension: between the biological and the symbolic, the personal and the collective, the intimate and the political, revealing a universe where each element seems to resonate beyond itself.
