‘La Fuente del Rabbit’

Texture, montage and narration are the essential foundations on which Julia Santa-Olalla builds her poetics. The texture of her painting, thanks to the brushstroke that leaves the mark or the indication of the act of painting on the material, introduces the tension between the pictorial nature of the image and its unmistakable photographic origin. The material, due to its unctuousness, traps us, holds us before a mechanically recorded instant that is resized precisely by its treatment from the painting. The montage operates in the set of works of Santa-Olalla in order to amplify the narrative resonances of each of the pieces. The stopped time, the suspended action and the enigma contained in each work, as if they were frames, are accentuated by a sequential arrangement that calls from us the questioning and unveiling of a logic, of the sense of a possible narration or of the transparent thread that weaves them together.