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Drawing and Painting

Paulina Padilla

Automatic Biological Life

Painting
2021
Oil painting
40x60cm
When going through isolation, I started an exchange through social media where I asked volunteers to do virtual sittings for me. They sent a picture they liked of themselves, explained to me how they see themselves, and we went through the creative process ´together´ often editing the painting through commentary. The subjects often narrated what memories they had when they looked at this image, giving this series a nostalgic feel.This is a painting of Lena

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Automatic Biological Life
Automatic Biological Life

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Paulina Padilla aka. Citronelaa

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“My work navigates the instincts of the body in its different manifestations. Experiencing our body through a screen, can magnify the distraction and entrainement lens through which we encounter the...” [More]