MARA SOLA – BORDERLINE
2014-08-11Sola’s is a world of startled, confused, and alienated reality. A world of a nomadic life with cycles of transience reflected in the impermanence of time and place. Natural order has been removed, and in its place the often-solitary subject is left to disquiet, questioning, and inevitability. Sola penetrates right to the core of what it is to be filled with the beauty of bare solitude. Her connectedness with the natural world and exploration of how this world interrelates with itself become a ground of encompassing unity. There is no promise of a better world. Instead Sola provides a reality that imbues her subjects with a fragile strength and dignity that stem from the direct address of otherwise negative elements of separation, loss, and implied tragedy.
Sola’s subjects find themselves stripped down with minimal signifiers that act as a form of secondary, introspective narrative. Subjects sit suspended; past and future are implied with an overarching intensity that displays the fragility of life lived in the present. It is left to the viewers’ awareness of this passage of time, or the illusion of time, to produce an anxiety that permeates Sola’s works.
This work is sensitive, often introverted, with a hugely imaginative tilt at what is real and what is merely a manmade construct. Her sense of unreality and isolation rebel against any given role, and follow the heart. Emotion is intense and a gateway to the world of the romantic visionary. Sola’s work shows that it comes from an inner demand for self-expression with a hidden scream of “I am here, come find me” clothed in a sensitivity and unique perception in which lie endless realms of what is possible when constraints are removed, and the perpetual outsider is given rein.
Opposite – Inner glow, 2012
Exhibition runs through to September 29th, 2014
Negativa Moderna
16930 SW 134th Avenue
Archer
Gainesville
Florida
FL 32618
Florida
