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 Unquiet Figures Opening: 5 September 2026 at 11:00 - 5 September 2026 Participating: Eulogia Merle In this new series of paintings and drawings, Eulogia returns to a question that has run through her practice for years: what takes place within the shared territory between humans and animals? Rather than understanding this relationship as one of dominance or companionship, the artist conceives it as a reciprocal force of transformation.
Drawing on Indigenous cosmologies from different parts of the world, where the divide between humanity and animality has never been absolute, Eulogia explores the spiritual and emotional bonds that connect humans with the animal world. Animals appear as familiar, enigmatic and sentient presences, while almost totemic human figures seem to contain multiple selves, their layered surfaces suggesting different memories, emotions and versions of being. For this exhibition, Eulogia turns her attention to the animals of Southern Africa, incorporating them into an imagined mythology rather than approaching them through a scientific or documentary lens.
Scenes of empathy, care, playfulness and estrangement invite the viewer to question who guides whom, who observes and who is being observed. Through intuitive painting and drawing, Eulogia allows these encounters to unfold without predetermined conclusions, inviting viewers to complete the narratives for themselves and consider the ancestral memories, instincts and forms of embodied knowledge that may connect us to the natural world. Her works suggest that the bond between humans and animals has never disappeared, proposing a silent reciprocity through which both are transformed.
Eulogia Merle is a contemporary Spanish artist, illustrator and cultural activist, born in Buenos Aires and based in Madrid for more than 20 years. Working across painting and drawing, her practice explores identity, bonds and the human condition through abstract figuration and spontaneous gestures.
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