For years, Marta Blasco has been carrying out an intense artistic meditation on the Sibyl, concretized in extremely poetic drawings or in a hypnotic window. Her recent installation in Palma Cathedral summarized her particular vision of the oracular condition: the Sibylline voice had solidified into copper plates that literally floated in space, referring at the same time to the bosom of the earthly. This artist does not cease to invoke the power of the feminine, the revealing power of the earth that aspires to become light. In her latest works she expands her poetics with sculptural pieces in which she modulates the theme of the cracked venus (opening one's veins, as Georges Didi-Huberman recalled, may be a way of realizing the cruel condition of beauty) but she also makes garlands of flowers or ornamental elements that have something of neo-baroque "vanitas".

Marta Blasco, with her ceramic works that have to do with her Valencian origins, intensifies her fertile imaginary in this exhibition that reminds us that beauty is not a forbidden territory even though, at times, it forces the artist to literally leave her skin on her task.

Fernando Castro Flórez