Exhibition no. 5.- Nocturnes. Solo show by Julieta Trujillo, drawing. From Thursday, October 8th, to Tuesday, November 17th, 2015.
The poems Hay días (There are days) by Patricia Rozitchner and the short story Chorrito de luna (Tiny stream of moon) by Claudia Sabag, are the source of inspiration for Julieta Trujillo’s work.
Two series of drawings, originally made to accompany the aforementioned writings, become the protagonists and spokesmen of fantastic stories. In which each drawing is free of a logical sequence and is fully independent.
At first glance, the drawings often seem merely amusing, however, they are loaded with feeling.
Flooded with moments of spontaneity, the drawings have an incredible amount of detail. With extraordinary inventiveness and a dose of adventure, the artist shows her attraction to free strokes. Hence her enthusiasm for whimsical lines and relaxed textures, its proportions set off any real possibility. And her fascination for creating scenes with imperfect perspectives, indisputably intentioned, could only exist in the mind of an infant.
As an avowed alienated girl, Julieta Trujillo takes us to an enchanted world, where innocence and imagination take us away from the monotony of everyday life. Her drawings become a way to connect with our childhood, to channel our sadness, fears and loneliness, to recreate those tender and harmless mischievousness, that often reveal smiles and added happiness to our lives.
In this exhibition, the artist plays with the clichés of puerile illusions, those things that a child could be daydreaming, but for adults, they only exist in nocturnal dreams: Shrinking and inhabiting worlds with giant objects, living in chocolate worlds, existing in several places at once, having a monster in the closet, flying to distant lands, and even pretending to steal the moon.
Julieta Trujillo’s work is a whole of wanderings. It reconnects the viewer with its inner child, invites us to recreate our fantasies, to revive our naughtiness, encourage us to continue imagining and therefore, fills us with nostalgia.
