Prats Nogueras Blanchard is delighted to announce There is a timbre of voice, an exhibition that brings together the works of Belkis Ayón, Chioma Ebinama, Susy Gómez, Nancy Spero and Cecilia Vicuña, and whose title is taken from a poem by Audre Lorde. This exhibition invites us to explore a realm where sacred and intimate worlds converge, through distinct and visionary female voices

Situated between mysticism and memory, this exhibition suggests a possible world, not as an escape but as a critical re-imagining of the present. In this space, the female experience is foregrounded, asserting positions of resistance, healing and transformation rooted in spiritual, political and bodily practices. These collective visions respond to an urgent call: to rethink the structures of authority and belonging through a gaze nourished by ritual, shaped by memory and informed by lived experience. Thus, this transgenerational chorus resonates across geographies and cultures, invoking the invisible, the ancestral and the political not as abstractions or nostalgia, but as creative and insurgent, grounded, forces that reclaim memory, spirituality and political agency.

The figures, symbols and rituals that feature in the work of Belkis Ayón (1967 - 1999, Havana, CU) are drawn from Abakuá mythology, a secretive Afro-Cuban brotherhood. - channeled into powerful monochrome collographies, they emanate a silent force - ancestral and deeply political. Beginning with a legend passed down solely through a secret male tradition, Ayón created her own visual language, radically transforming and challenging these narratives from an intimate and personal position. In contrast, the watercolours of Chioma Ebinama (1988, New Jersey, US), despite appearing volatile and dreamlike, reveal an energy charged with symbolism where the body dissolves into spirit and personal mythologies unfold in delicate transparencies. In turn, Cecilia Vicuña (1948, Santiago, CL) presents Paracas, a film that interweaves memory, landscape and ancestral voices, transforming the visual narrative into an act of denunciation, resistance and remembrance.

The work of Susy Gómez (1964, Pollença, ES) embraces the porous boundaries between art and spirituality. Driven by a vital need, her practice fosters a dialogue between individual identity and collective experience, imagining inner transformation as a catalyst for communal healing and resistance. Finally, Nancy Spero's (1926, Cleveland, Ohio, US - 2009, New York, US) seven panel work Propitiatory confronts violence and amplifies a subversive voice through fragmented but determined bodies to engage the viewer in a powerful visual invocation: "my body, my presence mediated by the mark on the paper is no longer absent. I speak".

Acknowledgements: Golub Spero Foundation; Galerie Lelong, New York; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Maureen Paley, London; Patrizia and Simone Poletti and Estudio Figueroa-Vives, Havana.