Marta De la Fuente

This series continues the customary universe that Marta de la Fuente develops around domestic life as an emotional space. Faced with the pressure of constant performance, the scenes pause on simple gestures: eating, sharing, resting. Bodies do not compete or correct themselves; they simply are, enjoy, and inhabit time. Food, after-dinner conversation, and small daily pleasures appear as forms of refuge. Through close-up framing, frontality, and direct light, the seemingly banal becomes the protagonist. More than nostalgia, the series proposes a stance: to accept, inhabit, and find rest in the everyday.

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In this series, Marta de la Fuente observes tarot not as a mystical object or a prediction mechanism, but as a symbolic structure that reveals a deeply human need: to understand oneself. The works record card reading as an emotional and narrative space where desires, identities, and possible futures are projected. In these encounters, focused gazes, tense gestures, or anticipated smiles appear, revealing a shared vulnerability: the desire to find meaning, to cling to a story—real or imagined—that offers direction. The series also proposes a mutable reading: the pieces can be rotated or rearranged, as if they were shuffled cards, reminding us that meaning arises from the relationship between the elements.

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In Itadakimasu, presented at Art Madrid alongside Lexus, Marta de la Fuente intervenes the Lexus RZ model as a moving canvas, exploring gastronomy as a bridge between memory, travel, and identity. Through a fragmented narrative connecting Spain and Japan, she transforms the automobile into a visual logbook where landscape, journey, and culinary ritual intertwine like memories in transit. The intervention is completed with five paintings that expand this experience, consolidating a project where object and oil paint dialogue with coherence. The series reaffirms her ability to expand portraiture and figuration towards hybrid formats, maintaining a solid visual identity and a recognizable emotional dimension.

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In Anís & Chinchón, Marta de la Fuente draws on costumbrism and intimate memory to construct a painting that oscillates between the personal and the generational. Through domestic scenes, family figures, and seemingly insignificant gestures, she retrieves fragments of memory that transcend the autobiographical and become shared imagery. Her style, instinctive yet realistically rooted, amplifies the everyday to bestow it with unexpected emotional intensity. The series functions as a dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity: it celebrates customs, nostalgia, and inherited bonds, but does so from a current, conscious, and direct perspective. Without academic rigidity and prioritizing authenticity over formal perfection, Marta consolidates in this stage a unique voice within the new Spanish figurative realism, where the domestic acquires symbolic dimension and the intimate becomes collective.

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