ALBA SUAU

At the heart of the project lies the image of a mountain that Alba Suau begins to imagine as a person, as an other. A figure that seems to approach and recede at the same time, which the artist seeks to reach through painting. As Suau reveals: “What did it hold? Who was it? All I receive are its glimmers, and I decide to paint that mystery.”

Isla ignorada, Gloria Fuertes

Quizá haya algún tesoro

muy dentro de mi entraña.

¡Quién sabe si yo tengo

diamante en mi montaña,

o tan sólo un pequeño

pedazo de carbón!

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Los árboles del bosque de mi isla,

sois vosotros mis versos.

¡Qué bien sonáis a veces

si el gran músico viento

os toca cuando viene el mar que me rodea!

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“A few months before starting this project, I read the poem La Isla ignorada by Gloria Fuertes, and one verse became lodged in my mind: diamante en mi montaña (“a diamond in my mountain”).

I kept repeating the phrase, and as I did so, a duality emerged. I saw myself as the mountain, and I saw the mountain as an other. Both were throbbing, both were alive.

I envisioned this mountain-person, but every time its image began to appear, it would move away again. I began to paint in order to get closer to it. What did it hold? Who was it? Only its glimmers reach me, and I decide to paint that mystery.” - Alba Suau