Mariajosé Gallardo

Mariajosé Gallardo considers herself an anachronistic artist because she uses painting and is interested in reflecting on the pictorial process at a time when art is seeking other media. By means of painting - and its installation layout on many occasions - she narrates apparently inconsequential stories, mixing tradition and current culture and concerned about issues such as the power of the image in today's society, where human beings are indoctrinated by beliefs, inherited habits and historical levers of power.

To create his work, he appropriates many of the resources of visual manipulation originating in the baroque period, mainly the use of trompe l'oeil or the accentuated cut-out of the figure on the flat background, which is accentuated by the excessive use of gold leaf. All of this lends a profound drama to the compositions that is surprising for its capacity for attraction.