BGW. FLASH: It's you. Susanna Inglada

Palmadotze Gallery presents, in pop-up format in Barcelona, the project ‘It’s you’ (2023) by artist Susanna Inglada, an immersive proposal that marks a turning point in her artistic career.

For the first time, Inglada moves away from the representation of the human body to explore an organic universe, where large plant structures – flowers, roots, stems and bark of monumental dimensions – radically transform the exhibition space. The forms emerge from the ceiling, inverting the usual perception and inviting the viewer to get lost in a setting that questions the limits between earth and sky.

The piece is inspired by the testimony of a Wayuu weaver from Colombia, who conceives of nature as a living being with which to maintain a relationship of respect and care. This vision resonates with the artist, who is personally and familiarly connected to the rural world and serves her to reflect on the loss of ancestral knowledge and the need to recover the connection with natural cycles.

Through this installation, Inglada realises how our patriarchal western society has wanted to control nature, as well as women’s bodies, trying to dominate and manipulate them at will. The work thus opens up a critical view of the power structures that have repressed that which they cannot control – disorder, the body, nature – and raises the urgent need to rethink these links based on listening and respect.

With ‘It’s you’, Susanna Inglada proposes a visual and emotional experience that challenges the body and the conscience, in a poetic call to re-establish our relationship with nature from a new point of view: more attentive, humble and alive.