“Mercedes Mangrané’s artistic practice emerge from her more immediate daily life environment. Its small format, a very particular treatment of the material and a palette that, despite its friendly ranges, tends to a cold luminosity are characteristics of her painting. For Present Future she displays a series of oil paintings connected to architectural places that suggest devastation and decadence through a detailed observation on the fissures derived from her immediate urban surroundings. Through the metaphorical approach to wall wounds the artist connects the healing process and sensuality of painting at the same time as displaying a variety of subtle semitones suggesting a touchable haptic feeling. As if human parts of a fragmented body in an era of post-truth, the artist becomes a producer of resisting subjectivities through claiming for the existence of fragility.”
