About Pilar López Báez

I like the ancient object because they are full of traces of existence. I can think of those people who touched them and used them. These objects are loaded lively memory. I like to think that the same happens in my paintings. In them I accumulate layers of images as life accumulates layers of meaning in our memory. My process and technique refer directly to our ability to remember. Our memory is fragile, forgetful and misleading. In my paintings, sometimes the human figures seem that they just appear, other times they seem to dissapear, the same happens with our memories.

I look for empathy with the audience, so often I work with universal themes such as childhood. Children, who populate many of my paintings, work as a mirror, it is easy to recognize the child we were and nevertheless we remain. However, the naive child vision coexists with adult vision; that childhood that I represent is not free of death and other vital aspect. Because the adults attach to the memory all the baggage of lived experience.