Mirages | Paulina Cerda

Paulina Cerda is a Chilean visual artist whose work lies between abstraction, materiality, and the illusion of three-dimensional space. Her practice begins with gesture and mark-making as a point of origin, using painting to construct surfaces that transcend the plane and function as active perceptual spaces. One of the key aspects of her work is the use of multiple layers of acrylic to generate depth, light, and shadows that suggest volume and physical presence without abandoning bidimensionality. Throughout her career, the painterly gesture has evolved from suspended and compact forms towards more fragile fragmentations, exploring the memory of movement and the persistence of what breaks. Her work is characterized by a solid coherence between process, form, and content, resulting in an abstraction that does not represent images, but rather constructs visual experiences that are activated by time and the viewer's gaze.