Cecilia Barreto

Diptych Free from Desire 1 | Cecilia Barreto

3.367 €

Measurements

40 x 80 cm

Discipline

Pintura

Styles

Neofiguración

Supports

Lienzo

Techniques

Acrílico |

Óleo

Year

2025

Unique work

América sola is a project that arises from the need to map the invisible tensions that shape the political and economic geography of the North American bloc. From a critical and situated stance, I examine how power relations —particularly between the United States, China, and Latin America— affect the sovereignty, memory, and collective bodies of our territories." The recent renegotiation of the USMCA marks a turning point that I am interested in exploring through art. Far from being just a trade agreement, this treaty redefines structural relationships between the signatory countries: it consolidates economic hierarchies, imposes labor conditions, and deepens the South's dependence on the North. These dynamics, although presented as cooperation, operate within a system of influence that updates old forms of subordination.

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Cecilia Barreto develops a rigorous and deeply critical painting practice, in which she articulates visual abstraction, economic analysis, and territorial reflection to examine how global capitalism leaves material and symbolic traces in our society. Her work stands out for its ability to translate financial data —such as stock market graphs or market indicators— into plastic compositions that confront the viewer with the invisible languages of power. Throughout her evolution, she has expanded her focus from the direct representation of the economic to more contained painting, where capital appears as form, texture, or void. Her potency lies in the conceptual coherence with which she addresses complex themes —such as extractivism, abstract value, or the violence of the landscape—, always resolving them through a refined, material, and formally precise technical language. In a contemporary context saturated with information, Barreto offers a painting that not only represents but thinks, dismantling the visual codes of the system from within the medium itself.

Financial information

Signature value

26.49 ¢/cm2

Accum. revaluation

93.42 %

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