Exhibitions
Night, body and nature with Sara Bonache at the Marc Domènech Gallery
As part of the Art Nou Festival, the artist creates a pictorial project where he explores the night as an essential biological necessity.
In a world saturated with artificial lighting, Catalan artist Sara Bonache invites us to rediscover what is essential. The Necessary Night , her exhibition at the Galeria Marc Domènech (Festival Art Nou 2025), crosses that threshold that we often confuse with emptiness, but which she claims as dark fertility, the origin of creativity and the natural cycles that define us.
Sara Bonache, Dazzling Light, 2025.
An exhibition that ends in a few days, on September 4, inspired by surrealism and the revealing power of the dream, the artist turns the night into an introspective stage: a threshold that connects body, nature and creation. His delicate play of veils and color, of organic forms suspended between the vegetal and the visceral, strikes both the sensory and symbolic terrain. The exhibition not only questions our relationship with the nocturnal environment, but also reactivates the question of what we lose when darkness disappears.
The Necessary Night is a pictorial project that reflects on the night as an essential biological condition, intimately linked to both the human body and the rhythms of nature. The proposal is based on the current problems generated by the excess of artificial light and the way we relate to the natural environment. The nocturnal flight of birds, the reproduction of corals or hormonal processes are just some examples of the extent to which the lack of darkness and light pollution alter the lives of living beings.
Sara Bonache, Unveiled, 2025.
This pictorial project links the biological concept —birds migrating under the cover of night, corals reproducing in the twilight, hormonal rhythms that are altered by light pollution— with a plastic construction that challenges form, highlights the symbol and recovers the night as a mythical space. In Bonache's works, darkness is freed from its negative stigma and becomes a generative force, where images are deformed, metamorphosed, seduced and disconcerted.
Sara Bonache, trained at the University of Barcelona, has established herself as one of the most relevant young voices in contemporary art with a conscious perspective. Her work turns painting into experience and reality into a poetic space. With The Necessary Night , the artist presents not only an exhibition, but an invitation to rediscover the night, to live it and recognize it as an essential part of our existence.
