Everybody Knows 19 | Cecilia Barreto

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.