Exhibitions
Invisible links and painting as a listening space
Marta Marcé explores perception, matter and the relationship with nature through a pictorial practice open to chance and sensitive experience.
PALMADOTZE presents at the Espai SMMonjos Vincles , the new exhibition by Marta Marcé (Vilafranca del Penedès, 1972), a proposal that delves into painting as a space of perception, presence and inner experience. The exhibition offers a leisurely journey through her most recent production, consolidating a line of work that understands painting not so much as representation, but as a place of relationship and listening.
The exhibition is structured around It is all there, a series conceived specifically for this context, in which Marcé investigates the invisible bonds that connect us with our surroundings and ourselves. The works explore subtle and fragile relationships that often fall outside the field of immediate perception, activating a slow gaze that challenges both the body and the memory of the viewer.
Marta Marcé, 'Rice Papers' Series, 2019.
The paintings unfold as spaces of silence and contemplation, where gesture and matter build a contained tension. With a measured palette and precise gesturality, the artist approaches the notion of bond as a latent, constant but not always conscious energy. Vincles is thus configured as an open experience, which does not propose closed stories but activates a field of perceptual resonances in which the viewer becomes an active part of the process.
Through a delicate and deeply evocative visual language, Marcé places the experience of looking at the center of the discourse. What is observed and what is felt do not appear as separate elements, but as integral parts of the same delicate matter. It is all there is presented as a set of works especially relevant to today's uncertain times: pieces that appeal to the need to reconnect with the natural environment, to accept the immanent intelligence of life and to recognize the symbiotic network —invisible but essential— that sustains us.
Marta Marcé, 'Colors' Series, 2025.
The working process becomes, for the artist, a practice of direct interaction with nature. Pigments, textures and natural imprints are integrated into the works as active matter, giving rise to surfaces that are often built from two or three superimposed layers. This process begins with the collection of flowers and plants and is developed through a deliberately open methodology, where control gives way to chance. In this dialogue, nature is not only a referent, but acts as a creative collaborator, contributing its own logic and intelligence to the final result.
