Trapped in the shadows

Curatorial statement by Dr. Porfirio Rodríguez

Our vision for this exhibition of Carmen Marin’s paintings is to provide artworks that contribute to reflection and emotional healing. Our mission is to present art as cultural diplomacy and as a universal language to achieve understanding among members of the global community. Among our objectives, we do not only want to present the cardinal aesthetic properties of beauty and the sublime in art. Carmen Marin’s art goes beyond the beauty and sublime usually sought in contrasts of colors and images. Carmen Marin’s art is an invitation to reflect on ideas that encompass the philosophy of her art, which also breaks with tradition to present art as a threshold to another dimension. With her art, she crosses from the everyday to the unreal. Carmen Marin’s paintings are not like those of an ordinary painter; her paintings use the brush to create images that, without written words, tell stories that come from the depths of the heart of any human being.