María Aparici

Maria, in your work, memory does not appear as mere recollection but as a structuring absence that insists upon form; how do you conceive of painting as a medium capable of both preserving and destabilizing memory’s authority?
Painting, for me, has always revolved around form—its presence and its absence—and how it shapes the way we remember. Since my first days studying art, my life has been my artistic narration; everything I live eventually filters into the work. I started by drawing Greek and Roman statues in the studio of my first tutor, Amadeo Roca, and that journey has led me to the tangled, abstract oils I make today.