Nuria Mora

The artist Nuria Mora presents at the CASTELLANA 22 space in Madrid her latest exhibition, “Placas tectónicas”, where she shows for the first time in Spain large format works and a series of ceramic sculptures never seen before.

She started painting in the street at the end of the 90's with her Fine Arts classmates but she did it with a language of her own. Without any previous relationship with street art, Nuria Mora (Madrid, 1974) left aside the graffiti tradition until then based on names, characters and signatures to become, together with a young Eltono who came from France, SixeArt and Nano4814, the first group of urban artists to make geometric abstraction in public spaces. They called themselves Equipo Plástico.

Since then, the artist has maintained a close relationship between her work, the city and architecture that has evolved into her own language, absolutely recognizable, which has led her to exhibit in some of the most important art centers in the world, such as the Tate Modern in London, the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, the Place du Pilori space in Niort (France), the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca or the Museum of Contemporary Art in Johannesburg. Now, Nuria Mora shows from March 23 to May 18 her latest works in the space CASTELLANA 22 of WeCollect Club, an exhibition entitled “Tectonic Plates” where she exhibits for the first time in Spain a set of large format works and a series of original ceramic sculptures never seen to date. In addition, parallel to this exhibition, Nuria Mora brings to CEART Fuenlabrada intervention “Wild Style”, a blank wall where he has made an organic and floral wall of colorful strokes with plastic paint and fiberglass.

Nuria Mora Earthquake

The tectonic plates on which we live are rigid, they are embedded in each other and are maintained almost miraculously by the union of one with another. Their movement is permanent and very evident in many areas of the planet. Although in most cases, these displacements are millimetric and do not affect the day to day life of societies, when they occur they cause earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other catastrophic phenomena for man. The works now presented by Nuria Mora in the exhibition “Placas tecnónicas” are inspired by this delicate reality: lines and earth movements, different layers that evoke architectural plans, juxtaposed axes, organic patterns or contour lines inspired by maps and plans.

These works, made in acrylic on paper in different formats, coexist with an unpublished series of ceramic sculptures “that arise from a premeditated ignorance”, as the artist herself explains. “This is the first time I work in this way, using recycled molds previously created to make ceramics for everyday use such as tableware, design pieces or decorations, and I put them together to generate these completely unexpected objects that are in a limbo between the product and the sculpture, which serve for nothing but at the same time serve for everything. I am very interested in working with what people don't expect from me”.