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The exhibition Illustrated Poetics: The Subversion of the Fantastic in the Pop Imagination by Julia Dalcastagné invites us to explore a multisensory universe, where the fantastic not only permeates everyday life, but also subverts it. In this space, the viewer is faced with a visual narrative that moves between the playful and the disturbing, evoking the popular imagination through a critical and contemporary approach.
The exhibition presents Julia’s artistic career, marked by several phases, each reflecting a distinct exploration of techniques and styles. From illustration and painting to digital art, the artist develops compositions that challenge the boundaries between high art and mass culture. Her technical plurality reflects an understanding of the social and cultural dynamics that shape the consumption of images. The universe of pop, cinema, comics, and games is reinterpreted, transforming icons into vehicles for reflection on universal themes such as identity, belonging, and alienation.
Solo exhibition
VIRTUAL 3D
UP Time Art Gallery
03/11/24 - 03/01/25
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The exhibition's title refers to a fictional entity created by Júlia: an eye that intoxicates. A gaze that, instead of recording, compromises. The Poison Eye sees beyond the decorous and returns images permeated by lucidity. There is no naiveté in its figures. There is formal rigor and continuous displacement, not only of themes but also of expectations. The composition is clear, but what is revealed is never innocent. Despite the venomous gaze, the characters are playful and impactful due to their visually well-resolved construction.
If there is childhood, it is ambiguous. If there is tenderness, it is distrustful. The works deconstruct thought. Each fragment is structured like a crack, where the pictorial gesture operates between denunciation and invention. There is no pamphleteering discourse. There is a choice of language. And that is precisely why the discomfort emanating from the painting is not a byproduct, but part of the work's architecture.
The exhibition does not seek to offer interpretative mediation. What it proposes is the suspension of perceptual automatism. It proposes a confrontation with the image as an ethical and aesthetic field. The curatorship does not interpret, translate, or organize meanings. It sustains the space and removes excesses, so that the artist's language can act with the force it possesses.
Marisa Melo
Curator
