THERE IS A WORLD TO COME Ruth Álvarez 03/27 - 04/30/2025
"There is a world to come" is the first solo exhibition by Ruth Álvarez (Oviedo, 1995) at the Lucía Dueñas Gallery.
Last September, Ruth Álvarez presented the solo exhibition "Orange Light Shines Over Me" at the Sala Borrón , curated by Juan Llano Borbolla. In this series, the return to the natural, the mystical, and the cosmic was already pertinent through characters who seemed to possess a dreamy and melancholic attitude. Álvarez is currently fully immersed in the creative process, where her imagery is transforming and consolidating.
In her latest works, the relationship between natural bodies unfolds, creating links between the organic and the symbolic. Through a vibrant palette and new formal figuration , Álvarez explores themes such as care, manual labor, and the interactions between organic bodies as metaphors for both a physical and emotional connection to nature.
The reddened hands and feet are presented as agents of action, figures who intervene in a landscape that is not merely represented, but also a protagonist. In their gestures of harvesting, holding, or treading, these bodies symbolize a dialogue with the earth that oscillates between care and possession, between dependence and domination. The fruits acquire an ambiguous dimension: they are nourishment, but also symbols of desire, connection, or abundance. The organic nature of the forms refers to both the corporeal and the vegetal, in a play of correspondences where the roots become veins and the fruits, pulsating organs.
In this poetics of rootedness, the artist questions the way we inhabit the earth, how we manipulate it, and how it, in turn, shapes us. Beyond a bucolic vision of nature, the work suggests a tense and visceral connection, where the human and the natural intermingle in a process of mutual transformation.
