Huxley-Parlour is delighted to announce Colombian artist, Lorena Torres’ second solo exhibition with the gallery, Un suspiro lleno el mundo. Presenting a suite of sixteen new paintings, many of which were made during the artist’s residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal, the exhibition continues Torres’ exploration of magical realism, figure, symbolism and folk cultures.

The artist folds contradictions into her work, drawing them together so they collect across her canvases: domestic spaces open onto expansive landscapes, intricate floral motifs and dense pattern contrast with abstracted planes of colour, and observed encounters are clouded with tinges of magical realism which expand Torres’ narratives beyond the personal to speak to broader themes of belonging, intimacy and memory.

Collapsing the boundaries between external and internal, Torres’ psychologically charged works emphasise an interconnection between place and individual. Embedding her figures within their landscape, Torres unites her subjects and compositions through the replication of patterns and palette. The artist’s works are laden with symbolic significance; animals, celestial bodies and natural forms act as markers for hope, loss, liberation and spirituality. Through this delicate interweaving of the allegorical and the literal, Torres negates conclusive storytelling, locating beauty and optimism in the everyday, and offering the opportunity for re-invention.