Bombon Projects, Barcelona

Natalia Suárez

For this edition of Art-o-Rama 2025, we present a dialogue between the practices of Natalia Suárez (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1994) and Anna Irina Russell (Barcelona, 1993), two artists of the same generation whose work explores different ways of relating to perception, materiality, and transformation. Through a selection of recent paintings and sculptures, the booth becomes a space where both visual languages intersect.

 

Natalia Suárez approaches painting as a space for heightened sensitivity and perceptual exploration. Her practice is rooted in drawing, which she brings into her oil paintings to infuse them with a sense of immediacy and fluidity. The figures and spaces she constructs often dissolve into ambiguous depths, suggesting a kind of latent narrative or filtered fantasy that resists straightforward reading.

 

Anna Irina Russell’s sculptural and installation-based work speculates on alternative modes of relation and coexistence. Her practice unfolds through the interaction between bodies, textures, and materials, often engaging with play as a strategy to question and subvert dominant semiotic structures. The pieces operate in a liminal zone—between the sensual and the strange, the familiar and the uncanny—activating spaces that feel simultaneously intimate and enigmatic.

 

While Suárez stretches the boundaries of pictorial space through distortion and ambiguity, Anna explores how materials and sculptural forms can reconfigure our ways of sensing, interpreting, and navigating the body (human and non-human). Both practices invite viewers into territories where perception is unsettled and meaning remains uncertain.

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