INMACULADA SALINAS

Spain, 1934

RAFAEL ORTIZ

Inmaculada Salinas considers that her duty as an artist is to provoke reflection on the world around her. And she asks herself: can today’s painting – misunderstood as self-absolving – incite this? In the face of so much empty, anodyne, integrated and institutionalised shouting, can the reflection of a simple rhythm, silence, even a suicidal gesture or escape from the prevailing, provoke reflection? Or do we simply let it pass as ‘useless’?

She states that perhaps it is in the moment of questioning that life makes the most sense. For Inmaculada, hearing the voice has to do with something deeper than sound. The voice is presence, which is why in her latest proposals she sets up a network capable of collecting and analysing absences and presences and, together with them, their qualities.