Carmen Liberal Siso presents 'Mediterrània, ser i esdevenir' in 'Ajuntament Vell' exhibition space

The Office of Culture of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that from 17 to 29 April, "Ajuntament Vell" exhibition space will host artist Carmen Liberal Siso's work "Mediterrània, ser i esdevenir".

The featured work speaks, in Liberal's words, "to the Mediterranean Sea –a vast space of encounters and links across time– as the origin of the essence of our culture", and "to its multiple cultural versions, which are bound together by rich diversity, trade, myths, water and light".

The artist's most recent work finds her linking concept and chance to generate a formal language moving from geometry to the stroke of gestural connotations. In a project titled Forma i Moviment, Liberal also records videos with fragments of nearby landscapes and subsequently crafts compositions by combining these with details of pictorial works. This highlights the fluid relationship between organic forms and basic structures, which the artist describes as "a metaphor of human relationships and our interaction with nature, the ties that bind us, intertwine and are diluted again and again in their incessant transit".

The exhibition will open Monday 17 April at 7.00pm. It can be visited in the Sala d'Exposicions "Ajuntament Vell" from Tuesday to Saturday, 11.00am to 2.00pm and 6.00pm to 8.00pm.

Biography
Carmen Liberal Siso was born in Navarra and lives on Eivissa, where she develops her work in pictures and education. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, specialising in Photo Cinema-Video.

In pictorial creations, one of Liberal's core materials is paper collage (opaque or translucent), which she combines with other techniques. She uses tracing paper as a glaze and experiments with water and colour, incisions and drips, and salt and sun. She then tears or cuts the paper and transforms it into subtle strokes, creating harmonious, nature-inspired compositions that are full of light.

In 2021 Liberal won the Consell d'Eivissa's Vuit d'Agost Painting Prize for Emprendada (the award was shared with Josefina Torres Riera).

The artist has had solo and group exhibitions in Navarra, Basque Country, Eivissa, Mallorca, Alicante and Galicia, some of which have been promoted by Art amb B (Association of Friends of Contemporary Art of the Balearic Islands).

13 April 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera