Following her participation in a collective exhibition at the IVAM and a retrospective in Seville, Concha Ybarra presents a project in Valencia that brings together fundamental lines of her work: memory, matter, color, gesture, the domestic sphere, and the construction of an intimate imaginary marked by profound poetic sensibility.
In 'Las estrellas callan, la luna sueña', Ybarra's work resides in a territory suspended between the dreamlike and the everyday. Her paintings and ceramics, as noted by Guillermo Amaya Brenes in the exhibition text, emerge with an organic and rhythmic facture. The chromatic use and forms, oscillating between the abstract and the figurative, generate a distinct lyrical rhythm, presenting scenes that seem to arise from the threshold between sleep and wakefulness.
Concha Ybarra's artistic practice, developed over more than two decades, is characterized by an intense relationship with materials and the time of the creative process. Painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles, paper, linen, burlap, thread, and clay form a personal vocabulary where the everyday becomes a support for visual thought. Her work is anchored in the domestic, the artisanal, and the familiar, activating a poetics of lightness where each form, color, or texture holds a latent emotional charge.
The exhibition title evokes an atmosphere of silence and introspection, condensing part of Ybarra's universe. In this space, the symbolic appears subtly, like a sign or an ancient memory. Stars, moons, and vegetal forms coexist in compositions that recall the atavistic and ritualistic, yet always from a close, serene, and contemporary sensibility.
In this new exhibition, the artist continues to expand painting into other languages. Embroidered thread, appliqués, fabrics, and soft surfaces introduce a tactile dimension connected to care, family memory, and manual skills. Elements such as thread, velvet, lace, tassels, or ribbons are integrated into research that unites tradition and innovation from a contemporary perspective, as was already evident in previous works.
The recent retrospective 'Una habitación propia' allowed for an interpretation of her trajectory as an atmospheric journey through the artist's various languages. 'Las estrellas callan, la luna sueña' can be understood as a new room within her universe, a space where dream, matter, memory, and desire converge in an increasingly free and essential language.
