CRISTINA LAMA

In a fundamental manner, Cristina Lama (Sevilla, 1977) is a painter who relies on intuition more than anything else. Lama refuses to rationalize the things that occur in her paintings, which often depict rooms, landscapes, scenes within scenes (or “enigmatic scenes”) . She embraces a fluid and non-hierarchical attitude towards different types of stimulation. Literature, memories from childhood, everyday happenings, and other paintings in mind all blend into the same pictorial tissue.

At first glance, the conventional wisdom would be to solely situate her practice within a tradition of narrative painting. The viewer can identify elements from the real physical world that yearn to tell a story: domestic objects, trees, terrestrial beings. Nonetheless, for Lama, the representational value of her work is always subordinate to the appearance of paint and the fluidity of language — the artist’s primary concern. "The composition on a pictorial level is very important for me. On the other hand, on a narrative, representational level, it's not so important, although it is part of the sum of information of the work. Those recognizable aspects of the picture serve as an excuse."