TAKE YOUR TIME, LEAVE SOCIETY - SOLO SHOW — Galería Reus | Contemporary Art Galleries in Palma, Mallorca

Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.

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Alejandro Javaloyas
Callum Green
Daniel Roibal
Elen Braga
José Fiol
Karolina Albricht
Julià Panadés
Marian Garrido
Miquel Ponce

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Abel Jaramillo
Alexandra Hunts
Erika Trotzig
David Martín
Irati Inoriza
Tommy Lecot
Evgenia Duvnikova
Daniel Dominguez
Martin Paaskesen
Ricardo Cases

TAKE YOUR TIME, LEAVE SOCIETY - SOLO SHOW

Nadia Fediv

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11/11/2022 – 23/01/2023

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Fran Reus Gallery presents 'Take Your Time, Leave Society', Nadia Fediv's first solo show at the gallery. With this project she continues her naïf style and focuses on scenes from her childhood, insecurities of the past, and the constant feeling of discomfort and isolation from the world. The artist tries to find the fun aspect in each canvas, always in connection with her previous child and incorporating landscapes from her childhood neighborhood, memories of the past and what it was like to grow up in her hometown with immigrant parents.

For this exhibition, Fediv seeks the trace of these memories of an analog childhood, almost fantastic today. Scenes of a life without technological contamination, without screens, video games, or social networks. As if they were a copy of photographs kept in family albums, each painting brings us closer to the artist's childhood, to moments of connection with nature and animals. For those born in the nineties, Nadia Fediv's paintings are closer than usual, they connect us with similar scenes. We have not been technological natives, but we have grown up with technology. Even so, there remains a fragment of childhood very well represented by the artist in which the desire to play with friends, go to the park, buy gum at the kiosk, play ball, play rope, long camping nights or the simply contact with nature were what made up our life.

With admirable ease, Fediv reconnects us with the past through a kind, amusing and pleasant look by means of colors and formal constructions, also closely linked to the simplicity of the childish stroke. Each canvas is an allegory to childhood without social pretensions, to the pure innocence of being a child in contact with nature and learning through it.

Turning The Vault room into a playground with colored balls, the viewer is immersed in a space without any external contamination, as if the room were a time machine that transports them to an almost remote past, reconstructing the artist's childhood but also reconnecting them with their own.

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