Una habitació pròpia. Exposició col·lectiva
Escat Gallery presents Una habitació pròpia (A Room of One’s Own), a group exhibition inspired by Virginia Woolf’s essay (1929), in which she advocates for women and creative work from the independence and privacy afforded by a space of one’s own, free from the pressures of a fast-paced, materialistic world that has historically excluded women from cultural spheres.
Aligned with Woolf’s thinking, Blanca Nieto’s work can be read as a reflection on memory and the construction of identity. The gestures of sewing and juxtaposing textures evoke processes of care, repair, and reconstruction that refer to women’s historical legacy, resignifying it as a form of resistance and self-definition. In parallel, Diana Ruban develops an iconography centered on the female figure, now endowed with a blue body that moves through bright and open landscapes. The recurring presence of this character embodies the tension between the past and a hopeful future.
The exploration of one’s own space continues to unfold in the proposals of Iris Sanmartín Dalmau and Alba Fabre, who address the representation of the body from complementary perspectives. Sanmartín Dalmau’s painting alludes to an intimacy freed from the external gaze: a private and conscious nudity in which the body shifts from being an object of others to becoming the metaphorical room described by Woolf. Meanwhile, Fabre confronts the tradition of the female image as the apex of male desire, reversing the effects of the male gaze through a shift in authorship and technique that denies its eroticization.
The exhibition concludes with Suna Imre, whose approach to painting is conceived as a dialogue. With each brushstroke she suggests the relationship between body, matter, and nature, turning the act of painting into a necessary pause for expression. As a whole, Una habitació pròpia becomes a conversation between art and thought that revisits a literary question: what conditions make women’s creation possible? The works gathered in this exhibition assert the existence of this space, give it material form, and invite us to imagine it as an unquestionable right for reflection and transformation and, consequently, for art.
