Julia Santa Olalla

°1985, Granada, Spain.
Lives and works in Granada, Spain.

Julia Santa Olalla Creates disturbing images, crossed by something occult. She shows events with an indefinite beginning and end, where the narrative ellipses in the montage and what is blocked from view through the pictorial take on importance; this fact does not resolve the images but poisons them with uncertainty.

Santa Olalla delves into the ordinary. That zoom-in that increases the perception of what surrounds us, whether intimate or strange. This search generates disturbance and enigma. The marvellous is equivalent to the poetisation of reality and the revelation of something contained in the everyday.

Her narrative impulse is of minimalist economy where detail is in the manifestation of the painting. This happens through different degrees of iconicity and evidencing the process, Santa Olalla leaves the imprint of the painting, she does not represent the thing but presents the energy of the matter. A deployment of resources from a cold strategy that gives the right space to the accident, avoiding conflicts and corrections to achieve a finish that gives sophistication to her work.

Santa Olalla never stops to talk to us and reflect on painting itself and its narrative power. At the same time, she questions us about the evocative capacity of the visual and about the responsibility we share when it comes to interpreting our reality in the face of ambiguity and indeterminacy.