Galerie Xippas, Geneva, is exhibiting new paintings by Spanish artist Pepa Prieto in an exhibition, titled 'Unhappy Hens Do Not Lay Eggs', on view through March 11, 2017.Although, Pepa Prieto’s work shares a lot in common with the familiar gender of still life and abstraction, each painting reveals the language she uses to explore memory and personal narratives. The way Prieto builds her compositions is a tool to retrieve and forge new connections between disparate pieces of memory. For this set of paintings, Prieto got inspired by her own migration experience, moving from her homeland to the United States. People leave for diverse reasons; wishing another kind of life is one of them. Based on their own images, own ideas, own knowledge, they build an image of their new life, sometimes very far from the reality. Pepa Prieto’s artwork represents this intellectual and emotional process. They are a metaphor of the constant fluctuation between our reality and our imagination.The exhibition is on view at Galerie Xippas, Rue des Sablons 6 & Rue des Bains 61, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland. For details, visit, www.xippas.comClick on the Slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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